LAST EDITED ON 04-29-06 AT 06:54 PM (EST)

I know, I remember hearing "I" and "jail" in what might have been the same sentence and a look that might have been shame or just Christie falling asleep mid-sentence. I guess I assumed she was mumbling and trailing off because she wasn't loudly proclaiming "He hit me with a hammer and I put his @ss in jail!!!!" So I assumed instead it was some embarassed ramble about the result of her shameful behavior in response to what he had done. I was making assumptions and connecting dots based on what the content was more than what I could hear.

In related news, I took a biology class years ago that showed a fascinating experiment done on a man with a unique brain injury. They can't do this on just anyone. He had hurt himself in a way that he had recovered physically, but the 2 halves of his brain remained separated from the result of an accident. Psychologists and neurologists have always thought that there might be something in the brain that drives people to find a logical connection between random ideas.

They made use of the right-brain, left-brain disconnect of this guy, covering one eye and having him draw some things. I recall one was they told him to use an orange marker, draw a bird. Then covering the other eye and asking him why he had drawn it. Because of his injury he didn't recall they had just told him to do it but he was certain it was the Baltimore Orioles mascot, that's why he had used orange, he had lived in Baltimore, etc.

They found the part of his brain that was activated when he was making up these logical associations for all the aspects of the picture.

Anyway, I always think of that guy when I put together my logical reasoning - like why I think Christie went to jail for the hammer incident. I picked out a few details and went to town for a logical association. That part of my brain just needed a workout. LOL

edited because i used a bad word