God, I feel stupid

[conuly]

I had to borrow a book from the reference room. No problem, right?

I couldn't remember the title of the book.
I couldn't remember my professor's name.

So I took a substitute. Halfway in, I realize I know the title of the book after all (Heart of Mathematics, and let me tell you that book is a prime candidate to be slammed at The Textbook League, link forthcoming). So I go up and ask for it. Sit back down. After reading this book (which, may I say, is full with needless 3-d pictures. If you don't pay an extra $10 for the 3-d glasses, you can't see the pictures), I go up to return it and recover my ID.

Person at counter: What's your name?
Me: Uh....

*groans*

I knew I was bad with names, but this is ridiculous.

Comments

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

$10 for 3-D glasses!? That's outrageous!

Shit, I just threw away a pair (the cheesy cardboard ones, but 3-D glasses nonetheless) my son got out of a Nikelodeon magazine. Had I known, I would have saved them and sent them to you. :p

[conuly]

Glasses and I think a cheesy CD. Still a waste of money.

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

We still have ours from having to take the kids to see Spy Kids 3. That is an outrageous amount to charge for cardboard and plastic.

I forget my address and phone number and kid's ages all the time so whenever I have to write a check or am asked how old my kids are, I always hesitate and people just stare at me. Guess they assume everybody should just remember this stuff off the top of their head. I may have forgotten my own name, too, but I don't remember... :)

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I forget the simplest things all the time... it's really annoying!

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

It is really annoying. Especially people's reaction to my forgetting my phone number. Why would I remember? I never call myself and rarely leave the house so I have no reason to call home.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! Why should I be expected to remember my own phone number?

I also have the same problem remembering which apartment number I'm living in this year. Of course, that could also be partly because of dyscalculia; I can remember what the digits are, but not what order they're in...

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

I moved from a street address of 176 to 175 recently (different streets), so I'm really confused and can't remember which one I live at now!

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I only learnt my mobile number once I moved to university and had to keep giving it to people or putting it on forms - drove me nuts having to constantly look it up. Even then I kept getting it wrong - for some reason I couldn't remember if it was 810 or 890.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

I always have that with my birthday and year. Or how old I am.

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

I've forgotten my friend's birthday before. Now normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but she's born on the exact same day as me! (by exact same day I mean, same month, day, and year)

[dragonsxist.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm a member of your book icons community. I recently created a community for book quotes (pagepassage) and I'm trying to get it going and get the word out. Could I list your community as an affiliate?

[conuly]

Um... *considers* I don't see why not. But if you want me to do the same, you do have to wait until after I take today's final. In math. *groans*

[dragonsxist.livejournal.com]

Rock! About the affiliation I mean. I hope you did well on your math final. I'm not a fan of math. It was always the one subject I had the most problems in.

[conuly]

I don't need to do well to pass, all I need is a 40. Good news for me, I suppose.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

well with a name like con-nevermind. i doubt you want EVERYONE knowing. teeheehee. but wow. con. that's bad. what are the "twins" names again?

[conuly]

Which twins, the real ones or SETH AND ANA?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

lol. seth and ana. what real twins? rich and chris"?

[conuly]

Michael and Aaron in my latin class?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah them. i forgot. x_x

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

$10 for 3-D glasses!? That's outrageous!

Shit, I just threw away a pair (the cheesy cardboard ones, but 3-D glasses nonetheless) my son got out of a Nikelodeon magazine. Had I known, I would have saved them and sent them to you. :p

[conuly]

Glasses and I think a cheesy CD. Still a waste of money.

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

We still have ours from having to take the kids to see Spy Kids 3. That is an outrageous amount to charge for cardboard and plastic.

I forget my address and phone number and kid's ages all the time so whenever I have to write a check or am asked how old my kids are, I always hesitate and people just stare at me. Guess they assume everybody should just remember this stuff off the top of their head. I may have forgotten my own name, too, but I don't remember... :)

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I forget the simplest things all the time... it's really annoying!

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

It is really annoying. Especially people's reaction to my forgetting my phone number. Why would I remember? I never call myself and rarely leave the house so I have no reason to call home.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! Why should I be expected to remember my own phone number?

I also have the same problem remembering which apartment number I'm living in this year. Of course, that could also be partly because of dyscalculia; I can remember what the digits are, but not what order they're in...

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

I moved from a street address of 176 to 175 recently (different streets), so I'm really confused and can't remember which one I live at now!

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I only learnt my mobile number once I moved to university and had to keep giving it to people or putting it on forms - drove me nuts having to constantly look it up. Even then I kept getting it wrong - for some reason I couldn't remember if it was 810 or 890.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

I always have that with my birthday and year. Or how old I am.

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

I've forgotten my friend's birthday before. Now normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but she's born on the exact same day as me! (by exact same day I mean, same month, day, and year)

[dragonsxist.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm a member of your book icons community. I recently created a community for book quotes (pagepassage) and I'm trying to get it going and get the word out. Could I list your community as an affiliate?

[conuly]

Um... *considers* I don't see why not. But if you want me to do the same, you do have to wait until after I take today's final. In math. *groans*

[dragonsxist.livejournal.com]

Rock! About the affiliation I mean. I hope you did well on your math final. I'm not a fan of math. It was always the one subject I had the most problems in.

[conuly]

I don't need to do well to pass, all I need is a 40. Good news for me, I suppose.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

well with a name like con-nevermind. i doubt you want EVERYONE knowing. teeheehee. but wow. con. that's bad. what are the "twins" names again?

[conuly]

Which twins, the real ones or SETH AND ANA?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

lol. seth and ana. what real twins? rich and chris"?

[conuly]

Michael and Aaron in my latin class?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah them. i forgot. x_x