Random-o-rama
Apr. 14th, 2012 10:56 am* One cool part of synesthesia is that the very randomness of the associations injects chaos into the mental landscape. Hence, numbers in the thirties are kind of fussy and raisin-colored, while numbers in the forties are a clean bright red. The fifties will be a stately warm dark blue with a mischievous wink, the sixties a butter pecan yellow, the seventies a rich green and zippy, the eighties lilac and generous, and the nineties a spicy dark red.
* I have a sunburn on my nape and shoulder blades.
* Getting a tablet with a keyboard will not help me write more. Only writing more will help me write more.
* I have a much calmer and healthier attitude toward money, risk, material goods and life itself now than ever before, having blown up the Bridge Over the River Middle Class and lived to tell the tale.
* Having only discovered it in the last year as a "thing I could do", I find I really like eye makeup. I wear it about 3x a week on average, and I still hide it behind a heady lens prescription, but it pleases me in a strange way.
* I'm started dreaming a great deal this week, which bodes well for my mental recuperation after the Autumn of Doom; also, writing may follow now that the subconscious is talking to the conscious again.
* I'm back at my peak weight, but do not look like I did the last time (we both got married at our peak weights--perhaps this is the key to a successful partnership, as opposed to dieting down for a special day which will always be in one's past). Clearly I've been putting on more muscle in the intervening time, which takes the sting out of falling back upward.
* Have gone back to swimming laps with a snorkel at the YMCA. Being in the water is so serene and beautiful, pulling through and against the weight of it, like flying through a heavy atmosphere. Love it.
* I have a sunburn on my nape and shoulder blades.
* Getting a tablet with a keyboard will not help me write more. Only writing more will help me write more.
* I have a much calmer and healthier attitude toward money, risk, material goods and life itself now than ever before, having blown up the Bridge Over the River Middle Class and lived to tell the tale.
* Having only discovered it in the last year as a "thing I could do", I find I really like eye makeup. I wear it about 3x a week on average, and I still hide it behind a heady lens prescription, but it pleases me in a strange way.
* I'm started dreaming a great deal this week, which bodes well for my mental recuperation after the Autumn of Doom; also, writing may follow now that the subconscious is talking to the conscious again.
* I'm back at my peak weight, but do not look like I did the last time (we both got married at our peak weights--perhaps this is the key to a successful partnership, as opposed to dieting down for a special day which will always be in one's past). Clearly I've been putting on more muscle in the intervening time, which takes the sting out of falling back upward.
* Have gone back to swimming laps with a snorkel at the YMCA. Being in the water is so serene and beautiful, pulling through and against the weight of it, like flying through a heavy atmosphere. Love it.