I feel like the guy in Memento

(You know what? It sure would have been nice if I’d entered this in the right section, or at least if I’d taken the 10 seconds it would’ve taken somewhere in the past week to check the page to see if my entry went through… ‘Cause hey, it’s March 7 now!) I’m starting to seriously question my sanity, or at least my sense of identity. It started last night. I was (am) exhausted, and fell asleep around 10. The phone rang at 10:37, which I guess is just enough time to get into that “if I wake up right now I won’t know where the hell I am” phase of sleep. I answer, and it’s a call for Angela. I wasn’t disoriented enough to wonder who Angela was, but I was a little fuzzy on where she was, so the caller got the generic “no, she’s not here right now”. He asks if she could call Jason when she gets back. Wait a minute, I think (almost out loud), I’m Jason! I had to ask his last name, but I don’t think I explained that it was to clarify things for me, not Angela. Turns out he has a different last name than I do, so I’m still me at this point. This morning, I got an email cc’d to a lot of people I don’t know, from someone I don’t know, inviting me to a dinner to toast someone else I don’t know before she leaves on some trip to India. I spent 5 minutes staring at the thing trying to figure out if I had in fact forgotten someone’s name or something. I ended up replying back to the sender, asking if they’d gotten the wrong person. No reply yet, but I have had a few group replies from people saying they’re going to be there. If I don’t hear anything soon, I’ll send an email to the group saying I’ll be the one in the blue shirt. Mild irony: the email was from a “senior advisor” in a corporate communications department.

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