I Am Not This Spacey, Am I?
"Hello. My name is Brad DeLong. May I please speak to Jason Furman?" "I'm sorry. He's at a conference." "OK. I'll try his voice mail..."
"Hello. This is Brad DeLong again. Somehow I got myself into Eileen Chang's voice mail instead of Jason's. Could you please..."
"Hello. This is Brad DeLong. May I please speak to Peter Orszag?" " Peter Orszag?" "Oops. I just talked to you, didn't I?" "Yes." "Oh. When Peter moved over from the Hamilton Project to become Director of CBO a year ago, I must never have updated the contact. I'm sorry.... You wouldn't happen to have Peter's number handy..."
The phrase "absentminded professor" springs to mind. :)
Posted by: Tomas | March 01, 2008 at 01:34 AM
No way. You're amazingly sharp for an 87 year-old man. Time to worry when you start calling everything "the thing, you know, the thing." And when your colleagues and students roll their eyes whenever you try to stand up to talk. And when you start peeing your pants.
Posted by: JRossi | March 01, 2008 at 11:52 AM