saw this movie last month… *ing guy pearce… about a guy who has lost his short term memory and who tries to track down his wife’s killers.
could relate to it instantly as i too generally go into “memento state” after two in the morning, especially when i’m putting a nightout for academic purposes.
don’t know why but I totally lose my short term memory… i won’t know what i was thinking even a few seconds ago… I keep repeating myself not knowing that i’m saying the same things again… especially if i’m writing a report, I’m generally in a state of horror if i see any of my sentences… first half of the sentence would suggest some idea… second half would be something totally different…
something like “Dalmia Cement can afford to stock cement only at its headquarters but I don’t think Kajol should’ve married Ajay Devgan”. actually it gets much much better than that… difficult to recreate when wide awake…
if it’s a group assignment and we’re working together, I somehow try get around the problem by using my groupmates as “polaroid photos and notes scribbled on them”. I continue rambling while they try to make sense of what i’m saying and somehow piece it all together…
trouble comes when the group part of it is over and I have to do “my portion” though… I believe I’ve screwed up no less than four assignments for my groups this term due to this… I keep getting hifunda ideas but unless I tell them to someone in that split second, they are lost forever… Though i must assure you that I generally do a check after I wake up and have thankfully not submitted sentences such as the one two passages above.
Wanted: Additional memory which can record all my thoughts and piece them together in a cohesive manner