I get bored a lot. Not dramatically, just in the ordinary way where there’s nothing to do and my brain doesn’t know what to do with that. It happens most on the bus home from work. My mind is fried enough to be useless but not fried enough to actually switch off. I’m just sort of stuck between the day and the evening, not knowing what to do with myself.
I’ve started making lists in these moments. Not useful lists. Just whatever my brain wants to follow for a few minutes. A theme comes up, I chase it until it gets weird, and then I keep going. Eventually I look up and there’s a list. It usually raises more questions than it answers. But it feels like I’ve done something with the time, and honestly on a bus at 6pm, that’s all I’m looking for.
One such example is my list of good names for a tortoise.
- Shelldon
- Shelliot
- Squirtle
- Tortellini
- Aristurtle
- Oogway
- Voldetort
- Lemon tort
- Orange tort
- Citrus tort
- Blueberry tort
- Kiwi tort
- Guava tort
- Passionfruit tort
- Turt Reynolds
- Turt Cobain
- Donnashella Versace
- Donashello
- Donatello (from Ninja Turtles)
- Any of the Ninja Turtles names
- Turtle Recall / Tortle Recall
- Turtle Eclipse of the Heart
- Mishelle
- Roshelle
- “The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the shell”
- Shellac
- Shellfish
- Shellby
- Sweet shell-tered summer child
- Shellman’s mayonnaise
- Jennifer Slowpez
- Lindsey Slowhan
- Slow Rida
- Slow-fi soundcloud beats
- Slowkey snatched
- Slow-mer Simpson
- Slow-mar al Bashir
- Slow-livia Rodrigo