passing data to viz.director

[vadrian]

is there a way to pass information to vis.director(func)? I have an array of people i want to blink, and this is my setup, but i don't see it working:

class Person(viz.VizAvatar, viz.EventClass):
...
    def _blink(self):
        self._head.morph(0,1.0,0.1)
        viz.waittime(BLINK_DURATION)
        self._head.morph(0,0.0,0.1)
        viz.starttimer(TIMER_BLINK, random.uniform(BLINK_DELAY_MIN, BLINK_DELAY_MAX))

    def _ontimer(self, num):
        if num == TIMER_BLINK:
            viz.director(self._blink)

i don't think "self" is getting passed into blink(). is there a better way to make an avatar blink on its own (I dont want to have N timers or N blink funtions)

EDIT: my reason for the director function is because i need the waittime. otherwise the blink happens too fast and looks unnatural.