Somewhat recently I went from several years of working through literature to spending my day staring at numbers, codes, prices and dates in spreadsheets and variations thereof. So I began to find little escapes, like printed out poetry half-hidden behind my monitor (though Baudelaire might have been a bit lewd for work), scribbling notes for story ideas admidst purchase order reminders, and bringing books for my breaks. But, after a while, regardless of whatever was going on in the rest of my mind, staring at the black and white grids and starkly apparent meaning of numeric symbols began to wear on my mind. Then I started adding colors to my various spreadsheets. Bright red to get me moving on ASAP tasks, and dark red for lesser priorities; bright blue to show me something is approved to send, and darker blue to say it's ok, but might bear waiting. Reddish-brown to call my eye to something that needs to be watched, and purples for longer-term reminders and their degrees of importance; and slight shifts off of black, deep green or gray, to catch my subconscious as a I scan along. So, not only do my spreadsheets seem like different degrees of rainbows now, but I'm having fun creating my own semantic system, going by whatever meaning my (sub)conscious applies to each color and shade.