So as some of you may know I go for walks in order to gather my thoughts about what I'm going to write. But sometimes I go for a longer walk than I planned and say if I was writing out a chapter in my head I might forget how I started and only have the middle/end left with me by the time I get home. More than one person has pointed out I should bring a notebook or something with me and jot stuff down but I hate carrying things and whatever.

Anyway.

But I got a new phone and it has a voice memo option, so I thought, you know what, I'm already sketchily muttering to myself while I walk, maybe if it looked like I was making a call people won't think I'm a serial killer.

Problems that are indicative of my life:

1) I did not realize I hadn't turned it on properly until halfway through my walk. Luckily I had just decided to scrap what I'd planned out and that's why I looked at it, only to see I'd recorded nothing and therefore had nothing to delete. So... okay.

2) It either has an around 15min limit or I shut it off by accident - both equally likely because I'm stupid at not touching things while I use them so I probably shut it off honestly. So it stops right after the second section that I rambled about and then decided I didn't want to use.

3) I can't delete it because I have a couple ideas in there I'm not sure I entirely dislike, or just in general am not sure if I want to use or not, which is a problem because I'd like to delete it because:

4) That was the most awkward thing to listen to. Not only is it my voice (probably. like all recordings it doesn't sound like me to me. I think nearly everyone experiences this.) but I'm walking as I talk and there are people around, so I'm a) whispering and b) breathing into the microphone so c) even though I'm not saying anything particularly weird really just but GOD IT SOUNDS DIRTY AND I'M NOT EVEN SAYING ANYTHING DIRTY JUST NORMAL THINGS I WRITE ALL THE TIME.

I feel awkward. Anyway so the moral of the story is the part of my ramblings I decided to actually write down didn't even get recorded, and this whole experience was bizarre, and I'm just going to stick to mental notes in the future. XD