5 fingers (usually), 5 senses (usually),* 5 days (usually) make a work week,

And 5 things make a post:

1. From the Lexiphile file: Watching all these old movie musical rom-coms, I got to wondering about the word "candy" (such a nice word for a lyric). According to the Online Etymology Dictionary Candy came into English the late 1200s, via Old French, via its Persian and Sanskrit Great-grandparents: qand and khanda.
   
   At around the same time, the word "Sweet" was used to mean both a piece of candy and a person -- "a beloved."
   
   I find it rather reassuring that these words have remained stable for 800 or so years... The things that are really important to communicate, we don't mess around with.
   
   
2. Coming soon: A post about Danny Kaye's penultimate leading role ("On the Double," 1961), and how the contemporary New York Times movie reviewer and I saw two essentially different films, thanks, more than anything, to the 50 years of cultural change that has flowed on between then and now. Someone has uploaded the whole film to YouTube, in ~10 minutes clips, and there is one part (part 6), and it's the one chunk that has the most emotionally mature scene, and makes me wish with nearly my entire heart that Danny Kaye had been allowed to play dramatic roles before he retired from Big Screen films; he was 48 when he made the film, but the role he'd been given was still the wet-behind-the-ears Innocent Schlep. But for three or four minutes, you see (and hear, in his voice) the grown man.
   
   The company that released the DVD did an utterly "Bare bones" version -- without even closed captioning (which, I don't understand how that's legal, since it was released just last year, and we have this little thing called the ADA). So I want to try to post the clip here with a transcript. But transcribing ten minutes of a Danny Kaye film will need a full load of daily spoons, and be undertaken in bite-sized chunks, so...
   
   
3. Yesterday, sometime in the afternoon, the fan of my air conditioning conked out (and I don't have money in my budget right now, to get it fixed). So I opened the one window I could a) reach, and b) still had the bug screen up... just to get some fresh air in the house. Then, the fan started working again. But now, the window is stuck, and I can't close it again (*Augh!). Also, the weather service said today is Code Orange for Air Quality, which means it's bad for people with asthma (like me). Joy. Today will be one of those short-spoon days, I think.
   
   
4. Last year, on one of my favorite radio programs (The Splendid Table), there was an interview with a neurologist who discovered that the senses of hearing and taste/smell are so closely linked that what we hear actually affects how we smell and taste (and I note that Laurent Clerc --one of the founding teachers of Gallaudet University-- lost both his sense of hearing and smell at the same time (whether from birth, or from an accident in babyhood).
   
   So, lately, I've been playing a little game with myself, associating singers' voices with flavors / aromas. In this clip, for example, of Joan Baez and Pete Seeger singing a duet, Baez's voice reminds me of fresh, plain, strawberries, and Seeger's voice brings up the scent of pine resin / freshly cut wood and wet clay.
   
   What about your favorite singers / sounds? What "flavors," if any, would you say they have?
   
   
5. I swear, there was a fifth thing, when I started out. Q.V. short-spoon day.

*Actually, there are seven senses, if you include the senses of balance, and hunger/thirst (the two internally-generated senses)