Skipping oh-so-much and poking head to post that according to Raq "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Mar 20, 2005 11:43:42 pm PST today is Mal's birthday! Can you believe he's two years old already?

(Also, just a reminder, since I'm not sure how much of a computer access I'm going to have until then, but Friday, the 23rd, will be his mommy's birthday. So early wishes for then, Raq, and lots of them for today!)

[Edited because I either can't count to three or have no idea what's the current day of the week. Since I have to figure out what I'm teaching each day (and it's different classes on different days), and most of that stuff includes numbers in some way or another, I'm not sure which option is worse. And I don't even have the teachers' excuse when they make a claculation error in front of the class, of "I was just checking to see if you're paying attention" because, well, y'all are only paying attention right now to what you're dreaming, and I hope it's not about what-day-it-is-today or twenty-plus-what-is-twenty-three, because those are pretty boring dreams, and is this edit three times longer than the original post already?]

That laundress job pays more than twice what I'm making.

But do you have three years of luxury laundry experience, Hil?

It was a touch of luxury that makes me realize that I rightfully should have been born rich.

I heard that.

You know what I should do? Set up a discreet matchmaking service for wealthy older men in search of young hotties for a long term romance-on-the-side. Nobody involved could say they didn't know what they were getting into....

I bet that exists. What's needed (around here, anyway) is a matchmaking service for weathy any-age men in search of not so young, maybe not so hot, but really quality women.

HA!

Today would be a perfect mental health/get extra sleep day for me, BUT work is pretty crazy and I have been out 3 half days in the last 2 weeks because of Dr. appts. So today is a work from home morning and then go in to the office after noon (school is a half day and the afterschool is starting early).

A Cat and Girl just for bon bon:

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Anyone see THE RICHES last night? I really liked it, more so than the pilot, I think. Love the Gregg Henry character ( pretty much a reprise of his character from EYES ) especially when he's shooting at targets with his neighbors' pictures .

Fascinating article about color, sensation, and symbols (The Guardian): [link]

Artists are forever trying to uncover universal meanings behind their colours. It is easy to scorn their efforts, not least because this kind of thinking dates very quickly. Kandinsky's experiments in colour symbolism may as well have been conducted in the 14th century for all their relevance now. There is, none the less, a growing body of evidence that colours, shapes, sounds and smells do have meanings. Wolfgang Köhler's delightfully simple 1929 experiment asked volunteers to match a pair of abstract figures to one of two nonsense words, "maluma" and "takete". Immediately, and virtually without exception, people matched maluma to the soft round figure and takete to the sharply angular one. Some sort of shared symbolism related the sounds to the shapes.

Now Dr Jamie Ward, at University College London, might have uncovered an underlying symbolism to colour. Ward's interest is synaesthesia - the experience of a handful of individuals who perceive information through an unexpected sense. Some hear colours, others smell shapes. The vast majority see sounds. The experiences of individual synaesthetes are notoriously idiosyncratic. But there are unexpected regularities, and Ward's bulging address book - he knows 450 synaesthetes by name - allows him to spot trends that were formerly invisible. For example, among synaesthetes who see coloured letters, A is often red, B is often blue, and C is often yellow. "This is likely to hold true for other types of synaesthesia," Ward says, "assuming that we are able to make a large enough number of observations. For instance, certain musical instruments may tend to produce particular colours, shapes and movements."

For instance, certain musical instruments may tend to produce particular colours, shapes and movements."

Yeah. Especially with the right drugs.

What?

I have weird associations in my brain - not quite synaesthesia, but still weird. For example, if I'm looking at an Access form in design view and I happen to check a certain property of a field, I quite often get a mental image of a certain intersection in my home town, one that I mostly only drove through when delivering bundles of newspapers to the post office. It's weird - only that one image.

I briefly thought that posting this might give you all the idea I'm crazy, but then you already know that....