the moon

So I realised yesterday and the day before that having been away so many times since I got back before New Year's that I had a lot of boring administrative stuff to catch up on.

I spent Valentine's day going through all of my KCL emails which I had let build up pretty much since I got here, and anyone with a KCL email will know that that is a BAD MOVE. The accounts have no memory and we get about 10 emails a day that are all circulars asking people to sign up for research testing about suicide / anxiety problems / ticks / bulimia / dental care? And a ton of invites to every society and it's mother's events. As well as all of the dumb stuff you signed up for in Freshers' Week that you never actually joined but still haven't unsubscribed yourself from the mailing list. As interesting as it sounds I don't think I will ever actually go to a Genetics Soc meeting.

Then yesterday I had to work out what I had spent all my money on. That was fun.
The good news is I am actually taking it seriously and keeping all my receipts and adding everything up and seeing if it figures with the money I took out and the money I still have.
Finally - some potential financial management skillz.

So by the end of yesterday I think I forgot how to use my body. I decided to go for a walk, down the cerro to Reñaca, and from there round the coast to Viña. My motivation was a Bravissimo ice cream parlour on the beach. It was probably about an hour's walk (although I didn't check the time), and I got there at about half 7 when the sun was fairly low in the sky but sadly not near enough setting for me to stay and bear the cold breeze in my t-shirt.

The moon was visible and looking slightly bigger than usual, and I got to thinking about waves and tides and the like. The waves in Viña are the biggest I have ever seen (in real life), they really roll over and crash. Most of the beaches are not fit for swimming in (also because there is a very strong undercurrent). It was pretty awesome sitting on the beach, eating my ice cream, smelling the sea, and not only hearing the waves crash but at times feeling them collide with the sand too.

I didn't take a camera but in my mind's eye I was seeing this. Minus the clouds.