who, me?

so for some reason, every few months i get these calls from some hr recruiting firm that keep trying to offer me some fantastic new job opportunity. which is fine and normal, only that it’s a fantastic new job opportunity in the health care industry. let it be known that i’m a tech head, and have not, and likely will never be, in the health care industry. i can’t imagine what list they got my name off of, but they definitely seem to think that i’m some sort of practitioner or something. perhaps it’s my doppleganger they’re looking for?

speaking of which, just after thanksgiving i got a note from the post office that they tried to deliver something for me from amazon.com. however, when i tried to pick it up, on every occasion, they weren’t able to locate the package. after some sleuthing, i figured out that it was a fooly cooly dvd (which, by the way, is a fantastic and incredibly bizzare and crazy anime that everyone should watch immediately) that someone had bought for me off of my amazon.com wishlist. after many repeated phone calls to the local post office “authorities”, they finally fessed up, a month later, that they had no idea what happened to it and they had probably lost it. i was able to wheedle amazon to give me the gift note sent with it, so i could at least thank whomever it was who tried to send it to me.

however, it was from someone named david, who had a phone number that i didn’t recognize, and had some historical reference that sort of described me, not not exactly. “I wonder how it compares emotionally to watching Robotech for the first time on TV in a dorm room in 1985? “ hm, well, i was watching robotech in 1985, but i was still in high school then. and no david that i knew had that phone number.

so i phoned up this mystery david from my past, and fessed up that i didn’t have any idea who he was, but thanks anyway? it turns out that there’s some other ed out there, with my exact same name, and they were positive it had to be their friend ed who had went to ucla, this from the stuff on my wish list, as well as my one list on amazon of dvd’s actually worth owning, which they swore had to be written by him.

but it’s not him. it’s me. isn’t it. i wonder if he’s working in the health care industry?

Posted at January 14, 2004 1:42 PM