I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, but there are definitely times when I feel like a real dope.

I have a head for numbers. I can memorize words fairly well. I can pick out faces pretty well, also. What I apperently cannot do, however, is remember a name to save my life. No, I take that back. I'm even pretty good at remebering the names of actors and other celebrities. It's remembering the name of people that I meet that confounds me. I think that is what impresses me most about our head pastor. Once he hears a name, it seems, it is enblazened in his memory and he can greet people by name that he has only met once.

Two cases spring to mind. Yesterday we went on a prayer walk after church. One of the people in our group is someone that I see almost every week. Whenever I pass him, I nod my head and say hi. But I cannot remember his name. I couldn't when I 'introduced' myself yesterday, and I can't today, only slightly more than 24 hours later, even after mentally noting to *remember* his name.

Second, I need to get VPN access from work so I can work from home. I filled out the form and my manager told me to give it to Chris. Now, I think Chris is the PC Tech that I see wondering about, but I don't know. This is a guy that I see a couple times a week. We have had conversations. Entire diagaloues. And yet, I am not sure whaty his name is.

Don't get me wrong. It is not that I don't care about these people. I do. I just cannot seem to write the name down in my little mental notebook. I can remember where I've seen them. I can recall what they do. I can even remeeber if they are a Lost fan or prefer Grey's Anatomy. But the name continues to elude me.

I'm sorry, what was you're name again?