The 'J' confusion

Signs you may be stressed:

You get a txt saying that your friend's engagement is 15 JULY. On 16 JUNE, you panic because you think you have missed her engagement. So you call up a mutual friend and have hysterics about how you have ruined a friendship, are generally an evil uncaring forgetful ass,etc. He calmly tells you that it is in fact next month.

And then, you do it again:

It is 24 June (Sunday), somehow you have mistaken THIS week for NEXT week. So you call up your friend S. in a panic and apologize for not calling her yesterday for her birthday. She calmly tells you that it is on 30 June, to which you say YES, 30 June was yesterday, to which she assures you that IT IS NOT, it has in fact YET TO COME.

Sadly, you are not always saved at the last minute:

It is 22 June. You realize somewhere in the vague pits of your stunted mind that you MAY OR MAY NOT have been asked to give a presentation of your work. Yeessss, it's becoming clearer now that someone has indeed made such a request, and that the date was 23. But! June or July? You decide quite unequivocally it is July. The next day you get a furious txt demanding the slides for the presentation later in the night. PANIC. DIEEEEE LAAAAArrrr.

Theories?

1. Stress
2. My semi-evolved little oblongata cannot in fact deal with the subtle variations that differentiate 'June' and 'July'.



Go ahead. Make my day.