taste_is_sweet: (And Counting!)
taste_is_sweet ([personal profile] taste_is_sweet) wrote2014-01-22 03:07 pm

Finally, our stars have aligned. Maybe.

Yeah, so. ::Coughs awkwardly:: I didn't post anything last week because I was in Washington. Didn't do so great on the stretches, either. But resolutions can be a work in progress, right? RIGHT?

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah.

Anyway, I have news! I think! I think I have news about all those emails intended for someone else with my name that I've been getting for years.

True story, O Best-Beloveds. I think I may have actually found the mystery person.

You see, after getting yet one more email intended for this other woman (this one was a confirmation of a new user account at an NYC sports club), I finally snapped.

"What do I have to lose?" I asked myself, though not actually out loud. "It can't really destroy the universe, can it? (Though if it does, I'm calling dibs on being the Dark Matter.)" And I decided to find this person once and for all.

So, taking the clues from the misdirected emails (she lives in New York; she goes to a university that unfortunately had its name Shanghaied by a bar; she was once invited to be a hut ambassador at the Chirpy Ski Resort of God), and knowing that everyone is on Facebook these days, I did a FB search for every account with the same first and last name as I do and information that fit.

And, lo! I found one. She has the right age, right interests (art! Ski pictures!), and started the university with the bar-stolen name at the right time for all the emails.

Taking courage and the possible fate of the universe in hand, I sent her a message via FB. Here's hoping she checks her 'Other' folder (God knows I almost never remember to). Here's also hoping she really is the right name-sharer, and especially that she's the only name-sharer. I'd hate to think I was getting email intended for several different people; one is annoying enough.

But I have a feeling I've found her, because we share the same birthday, as well as the same name. I'm sure it's a sign.

[identity profile] brumeier.livejournal.com 2014-01-22 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Same name...same birthday...do you think she's your double? And not like the one you already have. Although, if you already have one is it even possible to have another?

This whole situation makes my brain hurt, even without the time travel paradoxes. I wonder if she'll get back to you.

How do you find yourself in these situations? LOL!

[identity profile] taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com 2014-02-04 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
She hasn't gotten back to me yet, unfortunately. She doesn't seem to use FB all that much, however. So maybe one day...

The same birthday part is just insane. It kind of makes my brain hurt, too!

I have no idea how I get into these situations. Just lucky?