unmemorable

I had a very weird experience tonight.

I produce a weekly political chat show on TV. It tapes on Thursday nights, so tonight when the scheduled guests arrived, I went to greet them and discovered there was an extra policy wonk along to help the guy who was going to be on the show with some complicated numbers.

So I was talking with this policy guy, and he said "Oh, I read your column, and I've been to your blog, so I recognize you."

But I was thinking to myself, don't you recognize me because....we once went on a DATE when we were in college? Because...we did. I had totally forgotten this person, but remembered as soon as he came in. I think we went to a sorority thing or something.

Anyway, so I felt sort of stupid about the idea of jogging his memory that we once went out, so instead I kept throwing out unsubtle, non sequitur-type hints, like:

"I was a Chi Omega"

"My name used to be Katie Allison, not Katie Granju"

"My hair used to not be exactly this color" (in fact, it's been EVERY color...)

And stuff like that.

I got nada. He never remembered.