I think fandom lends itself to the kind of confusion I'm feeling.
That, and simple differences in memory - I seem to recall running into you at The Other Change (old store) or on the streets of Oakland every month or two ... h'mmm, my "ten years" was low: actually focusing on it, I'm thinking, say, mid-'80s. Often enough that two successive backpackhounds recognized me readily, at any rate, though their memories were probably than mine. And my sense of how far apart things are has always been a wee bit wonky. (Like, thinking of mid-'80s as "ten years or so ago.") I'm the sort of person who usually knows what time it is but rarely knows what time it was.
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That, and simple differences in memory - I seem to recall running into you at The Other Change (old store) or on the streets of Oakland every month or two ... h'mmm, my "ten years" was low: actually focusing on it, I'm thinking, say, mid-'80s. Often enough that two successive backpackhounds recognized me readily, at any rate, though their memories were probably than mine. And my sense of how far apart things are has always been a wee bit wonky. (Like, thinking of mid-'80s as "ten years or so ago.") I'm the sort of person who usually knows what time it is but rarely knows what time it was.