My friends and I were discussing synesthesia the other day.  It is the neurologically-based phenomenon where some people ‘see’ in their minds, letters, numbers, days and/or months as coloured or in a certain position in space.  So, for them, a ‘P’ might look pink when they imagine it or the number ‘3’ might be green.  Some see numbers as a long line going from left to right, or bending at a certain point.  

I think it would be cool to see letters and numbers in colour.  My mental numbers and letters are a boring grey and line up like soldiers on a parade ground.  Maybe that’s why I’ve always found math so boring and grey.

But my months, now that’s different.  As long as I can remember my months made a pattern in my mind.  From September to December the words would start rising to the right as if climbing a mountain.  The white/grey peak was right at New Years when the words would start descending the mountain.  June, July and August lay in a wide, flat green valley.  And then it started all over again.   

At least it explains why I’m so exhausted by November.  I’ve been climbing for months, and have a ways to go before I reach the top.