Tyler had this to say
which got me thinking about the phenomenon of "pause talking."
Everyone does it, to some effect, usually when you are trying to get your thoughts together. I find myself "pause-talking" a lot when I discuss sports, especially football. It's the sort of stuff, meaningless numbers mostly, that gets tossed into the back of my brain, and I have to find them and gather them as I'm going. Most people are all-too familar with my usual ranting conversational tone, however.

My dad is a notorious pause talker. I remember sitting around the dinner table many a time waiting for my dad to crap out his thought he wanted to share with us. The thing was, oddly enough, it was usually enlightening. That's what was funny, when he finally got his thought out, it would be something interesting. Many of my friends can tell you my dad's weird ability to pull unusual facts out of nowhere (I get that ability from somewhere, I figure), sometimes it's just a struggle to get there.

Then, of course, there's Greg. I've noticed, for whatever reason, that my dad and Greg share a lot of mannerisms. I attribute it to some sort of teacheritis, but who knows. I would hardly say that all, or even most, of the teachers I know (and roughly half -- no exageration -- of the people I know are teachers) are afflicted with this syndrome. Another thing that my dad was notorious for, and Greg also does, is talk from another room. Now, we all talk from another room, most often in the classic kitchen-living room paradigm, but most of us raise our voices and eventually meet in the same room to finish the dialogue. Greg will talk to you in a normal conversational volume -- except from the other room. Usually I eventually say "I have no idea what the fuck you're saying," or, in what seems to be a game of discussional chicken in which Greg never flinches, exasperatingly stomp into the room he's in. More often that not whatever he had to say wasn't really worth getting up for.

Well, other than that, I flipped to CBS a few minutes ago to watch some NCAA Sweet 16 action, and find out Duke lost to Indiana (!!!!!!!!!!) and Oklahoma beat Arizona (sucks for me, I picked AZ for the Final Four. Sounds like the Duke-IU game had a hell of a finish.