Anyway, I don't really have much of a larger point here, other than that the wall between my writing life and my conversational life is pretty low. Obviously there are some things I don't share in print (or in my interpretative-dance shows). And there are some things I write about that I rarely talk about ("immanentizing the eschaton" rarely comes up at my daughter's basketball games). But if I have a good insight — or what I think is a good insight (often a huge distinction) — I'll probably write about it. And, if it seems appropriate in conversation — or dance — I'll bring it up there as well. I guess the reason the whole thing stuck in my mind is that it was a reminder of how weird my life is. If you're a plumber it's fairly unlikely that someone will say, "Wait, a minute didn't you snake a toilet just like this at work?" And if they did, it would be the questioner who would feel weird.