[livi]

Thats the story of my life. Both short and long term memory is embarrassingly weak. I will sometime concentrate on remembering what the guy I meet is called. Five minutes later its gone, no matter how I try.

I make sure the list of "must remember" is written down and as short as possible.

Most likely there is a stress related component. But then, we are who we are. I have a friend with at least the same amount of stress, that seems to remember every single detail during a day. On a long term scale he even claims he recalls most of his days in kindergarten. Would not be surprised if he still have vivid nightmares of his own birth..