At present, I'm reading an Advance Reader's Edition of Douglas Coupland's Miss Wyoming acquired from one thrift store or another some months ago before finally getting around to reading it this week.

Today, I discovered, slipped between a couple of pages, a Post-It Note. It was of that shade of yellow and size and shape that all Post-It Notes used to be, but nowadays seems very hard to find.

On it, someone wrote, "meisa18" in letters so carefully drawn and redrawn that, despite all the effort the writer was clearly going to to make the letters legible, was hence rendered almost illegible.

Whoever or whatever meisa18 is, it was evidently very important to someone, somewhere, at some point. Now, it's just a mystery. And suddenly the world seems just a little bit bigger.