ok, so I really don't have points in "recognize human"

Today I actually came into the office rather than working from home, in part because our department has hired a new department head, and he was scheduled to give a "this is me" talk at fika this morning. I considered missing it, but lord_kjar convinced me that attending such functions is actually an important part of work--there is more to being at uni than just doing my research, I must also interact with my colleagues now and then. So in I came, and did chat with my colleagues before the talk.

One of the things I discussed with them was an email set out this morning to everyone at the Uni asking us to list which journals we read for work. This had a link to a poll set up on the uni internal web, so I dutifully filled it in. They wanted to know my name, my field of research, and the list of journals I read. So I opened EndNote, sorted all of the papers I have ever read or cited by journal and paged down the list, typing the names of journals that are actually important to my research. Then there was another box for "comments" in which I typed a short rant about the one journal that is important to my work which we get in paper but not electronic and how in this century there is no reason to get it in paper at all (plus a complaint that I happen to have a personal membership to the organization that runs that journal, but for some reason logging in at their web page and pushing the "member access button" never actually gets me a copy of the article I want--instead it just throws me into a loop of the publisher's web page saying that if I want to see the journal I need to go log in on the society's page, and doing so, and then pushing the "member access" button to return to the publisher's page, which wants me to log in on the society's page...

As I left the fika after the new department head finished his talk a man I didn't recognize told me he got my mail. I must have looked confused, but he then explained that he meant the "mail" (intra-web poll) about journal access. It surprised me that he knew who I am, yet I had no clue who he is. So like me.

Therefore, when I got back to my office I looked again at the email asking us to fill in the form, and then recognized the name of the sender as person who did my new employee interview when I started here two years ago. A quick search of the LTU web page turns up a photo of him. Yup--the same guy--he recognized me two years later, despite doing employee interviews for lots of new employees, but I didn't recognized him, despite the fact that I was only interviewed the once. oops.

And now the geologic model that has been running in the background as I typed this has finished, so I have to go look and see if my last set of changes worked...