Calling all synesthetes!

This is going to take some explaining, so I'll go ahead and throw it out here on its own right now: heyorion is looking for some synesthetes to take a battery of online tests ("All the info I need from people is the synaesthesia battery completed, their age, sex and mother tongue. Sadly, I can't offer any payment, but people get to see their own results afterwards, and they can come back and test how consistent they are if they're into that kind of synaesthesia geekery"). Synesthesia is basically "a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color" (AHD):

In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise). Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker. (W)

I've talked about synesthesia here before--but reading over this just now, I was kind of surprised to realize that I do most of these (I'd thought I only really did numbers and a couple other things). Numbers, letters, days, months, names, songs and even smells all have distinct colors to me. (BPAL's Siren, which I have in my oil diffuser right now, has a vivid tawny-red-peach color. The month of October is kind of grey-brown with a vermilionish color running through it. 29 is leaf green and [steel? slate?] blue. Wednesday is kind of a greenish blue. Paramore's "Decode" [SHUT UP] is a dark, dim grey-purple, but the word Paramore is kind of a raspberry pink. Actually, words and letters usually appear in a large black Times New Roman font in my mind, although if you sat me down and asked me, say, "What color is the word serendipity?," I could tell you that it's mostly a golden yellow with a little pink in it.) I think it may be that I'm a very visual person--if all you give me in class is a spoken lecture, I am totally at sea--so I tend to translate any other senses into some kind of color or visual. Or vice versa, maybe--that's why I'm a visual person. I don't know. Anyway, if any of this sounds familiar to you ("Bitch, please--Wednesday is red" ), think about heading on over and taking the tests.

Doll news!

HEY YOU GUYS IT'S AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT TONNER--

"What is it now?"

"Are there pictures?"

How do you guys always know when I'm looking at dolls?

"Look, you don't scream like that unless it's relevant to our interests. You want to keep this stuff undercover, you gotta be a little more slick than that."

(Now Purple Arwen's over on The Shelf yelling, "HEY WHAT IS IT? DO I NEED TO COME OVER THERE?")

"NEWS UPDATE ON EDWARD DOLLEN, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!" ( I'M NOT SHARING THAT SHELF WITH A DISCO BALL )

Pretty good day

I started writing up a list of Specific "Fifteen Minutes" Footnotes That Still Need Work (links, research, a quick polish, whatever), and the Dracula one's kind of long, the Van Helsing one's okay, the POA one is really short, and then you to get to the King Arthur list, and it says, I am not kidding,

Total mess. Seriously, you have like 6 pages of unincorporated research. Get basic intro together.
HAVE YOU DONE ANY WORK ON THIS AT ALL?
Pelagius?

And then I just said to hell with it and took the dogs for a walk.

Today's journal flashback: a handful of shorter movie bits, Wicker Park ("A movie I haven't seen in five minutes, if you will"), the cracked-out Jurassic Park 4 script (really honestly truly, not making it up), and... hey, why not a discussion of Picnic at Hanging Rock? Can't think why not.

Earlier today, because I don't want y'all to overlook it: Where my synesthetes at?

From mercat: "There are several different movements in action to try to save Pushing Daisies, so I thought I'd link you to them: Help Bees Help Daisies, Pies for Poverty, Honey for the Homeless, and a mail-in (more info)." And I'll tell you truthfully, now is the time to act. You know, not several months later like the Moonlight fandom, bless them.

And from entropy_and_me: ( Doctor Who spoiler )

I'll just be in my scream-proof anti-fangirl bunker now if you need me.

More linkspam, now that I have crushed half my readership's souls: ( Han Solo Ain't Never Had No Sex With Princess Leia in a Star War! )