long walks and cold toes

the parking situation at the university is fucked. absolutely ridiculous. i should actually just leave the car home and walk to work each day, but by the time 5 comes, and its home time, my god am i glad to simply get into my little motor, out of the cold and the dark, and drive right to my front door. god its be crazy cold here. Ive done Europe in winter, joburg etc, some bloody cold places, but the last few days have taken me by surprise on just how cold Durbs can be. i think it doesn't help i barely move much these days; sitting typing for hours behind a desk at my computer isn't conducive to warmth and good blood flow and all those nice things. getting to the tea room and back with coffee i don't think quite qualifies as exercise either! so in a way, I'm grateful for the long walk from my office to my car; its about the only times these days when the blood gets pumped around, and a small, modicum of warmth begins to creep into the toes. the best part is the actual walkway itself though; there is a massive bank of indigenous bush to the one side of me, that makes strange noises and calls when strolling past it. its made me giggle at strangenesses every time. and to my left, the bank slopes sharply downhill and allows me the grand visa of the sun setting over the shacklands, the pavilion, and the rest of those random suburbs on that side of time; like westville. Tuesday was particularly amazing; each hill and layer was a different colour, making each one stand out on its own, and give the overall impression of a 3D painting. everything was massively textured, with a huge cloud causing the sunset to radiate through it, all reds and silvers.
sjoe. after starting at a computer screen, its small things these days that make me happy, and I'm tending to find myself going a tad overboard on how pretty nature and this foreign land called the outdoors can be. ha. getting office fever already. at least my claim for money went in yesterday; now its the fun wait while the ancient, painful cogs of the system begin to turn, and give me my salary. it'll probably come around just in time to buy Christmas presents. har har.