world too small to fit in head, part [N]
Nov. 24th, 2022 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishI am about 99% sure I just encountered a friend of mine from third/fourth grade.
She's a comedian who works with Seth Meyers, who is apparently also a comedian of some note.
I mean, it's not like her bio says "Jenny Hagel went to White Oaks Elementary" but her age is right, she looks (and sounds) really familiar, and there's a couple of tiny facts that line up with what I remember.
For complicated reasons that boil down to "later elementary school was Intensely Traumatic," I still clearly remember a bunch of my friends and acquaintances from third/fourth grade. There's basically no chance any of them remember or recognise me, though. I made my peace with that a long time ago. (Mostly by running into three of them and each time getting "nope, don't recall you, but i'll take your word for it.")
But it's good to see she's doing well.
She's a comedian who works with Seth Meyers, who is apparently also a comedian of some note.
I mean, it's not like her bio says "Jenny Hagel went to White Oaks Elementary" but her age is right, she looks (and sounds) really familiar, and there's a couple of tiny facts that line up with what I remember.
For complicated reasons that boil down to "later elementary school was Intensely Traumatic," I still clearly remember a bunch of my friends and acquaintances from third/fourth grade. There's basically no chance any of them remember or recognise me, though. I made my peace with that a long time ago. (Mostly by running into three of them and each time getting "nope, don't recall you, but i'll take your word for it.")
But it's good to see she's doing well.
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Date: 2022-11-25 08:48 pm (UTC)Oh, Jenny Hagel is a wonderful comedian. She's also an exec producer on Amber Ruffin's show.
(My best friend from nursery school and kindergarten is also a comedian of ... less note than Jenny Hagel, probably? But some note. And it makes me feel like a creep sometimes, watching her stuff and enjoying it. She probably would barely remember my name, I'm sure, and that only because there were 15 kids in the whole grade.)
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Date: 2022-11-27 05:19 am (UTC)(That does sound Complicated! But also ... not wholly bad? Parasocial relationships are weird, more so when they overlap with 'normal'.)