New self-discovery!

Apparently, I am mildly synesthetic. Specifically, I have that really common type, grapheme-color synesthesia, where I associate letters (as well as numbers, days of the week and months) to colors. I also have pain-color associations.

Up until a few days ago, I assumed I wasn't really a synesthete because I thought synesthetes ( Read more... )

I finally got the issue that was bothering me off my chest. It felt like birthing an emotional baby - there was even a few weeks of recovery time afterward. I feel better now, though. Like I lost about ten pounds ( Read more... )

For anyone who has not yet seen that video of Susan Boyle singing on "Britain's Got Talent."

Don't give up on those dreams, guys. This woman is 47 - that's an awfully long wait to get your dream. But I think it must have been worth the wait just to see the audience give her a standing ovation on the fourth lyric.

P.S. If you just want the audio ( Read more... )

My mother and her two sisters on are a 6-star cruise this week (which my multi-millionaire grandfather financed - no effing way my immediate family could afford to bed down with the rats on something barely afloat, let alone a 6-star cruise), so I'm currently staying in my aunt's apartment to cat-sit for her. (She has three cats like we do ( Read more... )

I'll admit this is a meme. But it's a really COOL meme. I did this days ago, and haven't had a chance to post it, but I think other people should find this fun ( Read more... )

Technology, I BEATS U!

David Tennant in tight, early-twentieth-century British trousers and being woobishly gay, yes I CAN has.

I'm watching the BBC's Einstein and Eddington right now, and it's really awesome. I should be doing homework, but, well, the day is young. It's not even 8:00 a.m., after all ( Read more... )

I'm currently trying to do my last Media Literacy project for my Globalization class (the culture module). This involves looking up the same globalization-related story in both an international news source and a North American news source, and comparing them ( Read more... )

I feel like crap today, so I didn't go to school. I'm just desperately trying to catch up on my calc in time for the first quiz tomorrow ( Read more... )

I saw an academic adviser yesterday. FANTASTIC news:

Due to transfer credit, I have already completed half my general education requirements for the next four years.Generally, students in a Bachelor's program are required to take a total of 12 General Education classes - four, "foundation," level, four second-level, and four third-level - from ( Read more... )

Between being called back in to work before I'd slept and needing to be up yesterday to go to a barbeque my dad and his girlfriend Jennifer invited me to at their condo (mmm, Cajun steak!), I didn't get a lot of sleep until, oh, TODAY ( Read more... )