h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Claims 1000th post at last. *

Why you...!!!!!

You were waiting for someone to post #999, weren't you?

Who, me?

Sorry, Prof. No hard feelings?

G7

*sips *

G7

G7, first it's the little things, like setting down your glass of juice in a kitchen cupboard or the tv remote in the fridge and then searching high and low for the missing items. Then you leave your car's headlights on in the parking lot while you're in the office working all day. After getting your car's batteries jumped more than once, you realize you forgot to pay some bills that month and you've forgotten your best friends telephone number. Then you can't remember a movie you watched last week or a book you read last month. And then the really serious memory loss starts....

Thanks, FG. Helps to know what I'm looking for...

...What were we talking about again?

G7

If only I had been paid....oh, well, maybe next time.

Yes, G7, memory loss is a wonderful thing! You get to meet new people everyday...

Gee, FG, I forget things like that and I'm not on any drugs at all!

Well, I put it down to moving after 17 years settled in one place. Just yesterday I discovered that my good pen was out of ink and could I find the cartridges that came with it, or the blue Waterman box that the pen came in? And I wear 4 pairs of glasses (one pair at a time), and sometimes I wander this little house looking for the computer glasses, the night driving glasses...

Anyway, Sporkster, I'm glad you've got something for the anhedonia.

Affi, I hope that this is one of many parts played by you in the future, and that the ones in the future pay better.

Right, putative listees, please supply a biographical sketch for yourself. If I do it, results will be unpredictable.

I too am that forgetful without the drugs. Many-a-time I have put cans of soup in the refridgerator and orange juice in my cupboard. Not to mention my daily struggle to find my car keys, which at last count weighed in at 3 pounds 5 ounces...

That is the one good thing about carrying a purse. I always know where my keys are because I always force myself to drop them in the purse. It may take 5 minutes to dig them out, but I *know* that they are in there, darn it.

G7

That's an awful lot of keys...or cars.

It may be natural for you, Lil, to forget the small stuff. But for someone who used to pride herself on a photographic memory it's been rough. Now I'm known as a doddering old fool, and I'm only 30! Plus, knowing also that it was entirely due to my own misadventures hasn't helped either.

A bio? Uh...er....

"Putative anarcho-syndicalist monarchist seeks same. Bring your own cheese."

[io, never has enough time for h2g2, and missing george]

You mean to say you can get pills for a poor memory? Not on the NHS, I bet

I have put my advent calendar on the mantlepiece .

Very kewl, Caer!

G7

[Amy]

Those symptoms sound lots like what I experienced during a bought of hyperthyroidism. I would have an extensive conversation with someone, then 5 minutes later have absolutely no recollection of having even seen that person, much less talked to them, and certainly not agreeing to do all the things they claimed I agreed to. My friends had fun with it.

Well, the good thing about logging on here is that you don't forget why you walked in. You just read the last post and respond, so if you originally came in to get a drawing pin, no one need ever know that you switched on the computer and immediately forgot...

Selective amnesia is a wonderful thing ...but not when you can't select the bits to forget! I go to Korea in 15 days and I keep forgetting to send my visa application!!