Finally, I got my act together and applied for a passport. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet, but I do want to plan a trip somewhere after my orals are over for a couple of weeks. Where should I go? It was kind of disconcerting to have the postal worker take my birth certificate and staple it to my application…but I just got it back in the mail too, so that’s fine.
I just learned on Wikipedia that Vladimir Nabokov was a synesthete, meaning he saw colors in his mind’s eye when looking or thinking about particular letters. A is red, S is yellow, that sort of thing. Synesthesia just means that stimulating one sense triggers a response in a different sense, so there are lots of different kinds, and apparently lots of famous composers and artists were synesthetes. I don’t know why that jumped out at me so much, but it is neat.
My sister’s getting a puppy soon, and I’m jealous. I want one =)
