X and I were talking about this just last week-- or was it two weeks ago.... I was bemoaning the loss of my brain, and she said, don't be silly- we just know so much more than we did when we were young, it's harder to access words quickly.
Which made sense. At least I wanted it to.
A larger database
My goodness... I'm glad that we've decided to have this little chat here on DAR...
I was beginning to think it was just me-me-me who was having this strange problem with... well... blank spots... little memory blips or holes... where there should be names or words...
It really is a disconcerting thing... because I've always had something of a legendary memory... photographic... especially when it comes to anything to do with art history, or architecture. This applied to students' names as well... I could remember every name and face for a decade and could pull it up on my "automatic recall", even if I met the person in the most obscure and unrelated place...... But this is no longer the case... Eeeeekkk!!! I live in constant terror of drawing a blank and not remembering who someone is and where I know them from...
But even worse, perhaps, are the times when a simple damned word will entirely disappear from my vocabulary for a couple of days, only to resurface at the oddest of times...
Last week it was the word "sentimental". I knew what it meant and wanted to write it, but I just couldn't think of what it was although I was pretty sure that it started with an "s"... This week in was vernacular...as in the architectural sense.... Once again, I knew the first letter was a "v", but zippo on the rest of the word...
However, considering how many things I'm packing in my mental briefcase at the moment, it really comes as no surprise that my hard drive is having a few problems in the memory tree department.... I suppose I should run a system check, and then perhaps call upon Disk First Aid in my Utilities package to patch things up.... but something tells me that there might just be a little breakdown elsewhere... a little leakage around the seams...
Think what I really need is to spread the system overload around... perhaps have myself cloned. Failing this, I think it might well be time for a mega-sized RAM upgrade... |
