i have a talent that is quite usless and yet very ammusing to me. i have a knack for remembering faces. so I can say hey that's that guy from this movie. and that's about as far as my talent goes. i also use this talent in my real life. the annoying thing with this talent is that if i can't think of the connection right away my brain throws the thought back into my hippocampus to think about it subconciously, driving me crazy until i can finally make the connection. than, as soon as my brain brilliantly makes the connection, it throws it back to the front of my brain and ding ding ding ding!!!! (i usually call becca at this time)
so my latest hippocampus brilliant solution...... go back to the saturday night i went and saw "atonement". there was this older guy there that was standing in line in front of us. of course i was like "where do i know him?! seriously people this is going to bug the crap out of me!" especially since he looks like Tom Amandes (yeah i had to look up his name because my talent does not always include namage) who is an actor that was in the TV show 'everwood', plus the dude had always reminded me of jimmy stewart. while out there at the movies in scottsdale i even tried to phone a friend, becca (another conasure of this talent), just to get me thinking because i know that she was the one i called back the first time i saw this guy because i had to ask her what the shows (everwood) name was. i could NOT for the life of me figure it out! the creppier thing is that is this older guy, the tom amandes look alike with really bad glasses, was with a very vapid 20something. gag. and it was NOT his daughter. if that was his daughter than it's totally like from ferris bueler when rooney says "so that's how it is in their family" when ferris kisses sloan in the parking lot. gross. anyway so the connection never happened and the thought was thrown back to my hippocampus to maul over it....
a MONTH goes by and DING DING DING!!! FINALLY (and i won't explain how i ended up making the connection because you will get even more confused then you already are)!!!!! so back on October 5th i surved jury duty. it was seriously the coolest thing i've ever done. maybe i'll blog about it someday so my grandchildren can understand how their civic duty can be absolutely thrilling, hilarious, and rewarding.... while still flirting with the witnesses. anyway - so that dude - was THE JUDGE! i would not kid with you on this. the crazy thing is that while i was surving jury duty i totally thought man this man seems nice, boring, judicial and has terrible glasses, married.... wonder if he is mormon? uh.... i don't think so. i could have sworn i saw him wearing a wedding ring during the trial! so i'm so curious if i caught THE JUDGE out on a trist in scottsdale with his dumb bimbo younger girlfriend while his wife was home darning judge robes!! i can't make this stuff up.
other randon tid bits -
time line:
october 5th - served jury duty/was selected as 1 of 12 jurors for the trial
december 12th (i think) - went to movie out in scottsdale
january 7th - epiphananny! finally made the connection
why do they call it a HIPPOcampus when it's described as in the shape of a "sea horse". stupid people name medical stuff.
2 comments:
Ooooo, that IS gross! There is this greasy old short fat bald guy (and smoker to boot) in my office building and his little barbie doll used to come and "visit". They finally broke up. So sick.
your though processes never cease to amaze me. i love it. :)
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