* what to do *

question for today:
how do you get around not knowing a person's name when you've known them for more than a year?

this is actually a very sincere question.

see, there's a guy in one of my classes this semester who i remember meeting at the beginning of last year. we had that one class together and even sat next to each other a couple of times. that class also involved court visits, so i randomly bumped into him at north sydney local courts, after which we went and grabbed coffee together.

the worst thing of all this, is that i, for the life of me, cannot remember his name! i don't even think we actually ever formally introduced ourselves.

it's weird because our conversations are great and i know all these random things about him and his schedule, but i still don't know his name!

here's what i've come up with so far:
(1) i could pay really close attention in the next class when the roll is called to see what name he responds to (fyi, i tried doing this last class, but it got too suss to keep watching him - coz people tend to put their hands up rather than responding verbally for some strange reason.);
(2) bring a friend along who doesn't know him and conveniently forget to introduce them, so that they'll do it themselves and therein, he'll have to give his name;
(3) ask someone else if they know (but no, because that's just weird and awkward and evidence of a mass fail on my part); or
(4) just ask him straight up.

sigh.