Effectively Mid
An evening with attention deficit
I always found it hard to keep a journal because if I went a few weeks or months without writing, I felt obligated to catch the journal up on my life and what’s happened since I last wrote—and that just took forever. It occurred to me recently that I might be doing the same thing here.
Anyway, my phone sent me a message today – it must’ve been unlocked in my pocket because I opened it and “effectively mid” was written in the search bar. No results, but I thought that would’ve been a way better name to rebrand my newsletter as when I left Aggressively Average. A sprinkle of copying-a-buddy’s-homework-but-changing-it-a-bit.
I’m trying to get back into reading, so tonight I opened my old laptop so I could plug in my non-branded e-reader1 and transfer some knowledge. But first, I don’t even know what I want to read. The last book I finished wasn’t even this calendar year. I asked for a book for Christmas and I didn’t get it so I just gave up I guess? Actually, I read the first two chapters of “The Let Them Theory,” but after that, I felt like I had the hang of it.
I know I have a list of books to read in my notes app, so I’m looking through my notes app trying to find something (I’ve forgotten what I’m looking for at this point but it will come back to me when I find it). I’m scrolling along and I see this one note called UltraSound.
I think to myself: woah… cool new music festival I don’t remember discovering? Was this for that Europe trip I’m supposed to plan?
Reader, it was instructions for my ultrasound appointment. An appointment that I had yesterday. I’d totally go to the ultrasound festival though: Jelly on ya belly and everyone drank a litre of water before so they all need to pee and the bathroom line takes super long because everyone’s peeing for 3 minutes (because they’ve got a litre of water to drain).
So anyways now I’m in ANOTHER note on my notes app writing this down because I haven’t written for this newsletter in a while and that’s ANOTHER thing I’ve been meaning to do. And now I’m generating the cover image I’ll use for this blog (see below).
I’ll probably never download this book and I’ll convince myself it’s because I just love writing so much. I’m not made to be entertained, I’m made to entertain. I am but a modern jester hiding out in your inbox. If you have any recommendations (or life advice) please send them my way. Or just buy a book for me at this point.
Let Them buy me a book. (Huh? huh? wink wink nudge nudge … see what I did there?)
Sincerely Fiction Deficient,
Siobhan “Bookless” Byrne
P.S. I’ve now realized that my wifi is acting up, so I can’t download a book even if I wanted to. The universe made a decision and it chose illiteracy. Or paperback.
NO FREE MENTIONS!