you're a hard woman to find

I'm having a hard time believing that a person was unable to find my mom. I'm not expecting any results from a "GrammaNora" Google search, but in general, she's got a lot of identifiers working for her.

First, she's a high level administrator at an institute of higher learning.
Second, her last name is pretty distinct -- there aren't many of us running around. And even if you put in the first and last names of someone ELSE in the family, her name usually shows up on the first page.

So when GrammaNora said a representative from a state agency had to contact her via a board she was on, I was pretty surprised.
Rep: You're a hard woman to find.
GrammaNora: What?
Rep: I had a really hard time locating your phone number. I couldn't find it anywhere.
GrammaNora: Uh...did you Google me?

I think this state worker takes the agency's "No internet use at work" policy a little too seriously.