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LWolf

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17. Pretty good.

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:40 AM

Jul 2013

Not THAT good.

I am terrible with names, except for my students. I learn my students names the first day of school, and they test me on them before they go home.

I would probably be good with other names as well, except that I'm just not paying that much attention. I'm not that interested unless I have to be, lol. I'm polite, but somewhat distant unless we've been thrown together enough that I've had to communicate regularly. THEN I'll remember names.

There are a few people in my building that have been there for years, but they are in a distant part of the building, and I've never worked with them directly. I don't remember their names. I could guess, but I'm afraid my guess would be wrong, so when we pass in a hall or attend the same meeting, I say hello without using their name.

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