Last night, i went to bed with the intentions to get through a ton of writing the next morning, but instead i woke up and immediately shirked off the responsibility for a trip to the beach, like a good little L.A. sun worshiper. I didn't leave out personal development entirely, though--i brought a geology text and a newsweekly that ended up wrinkled and sticky with sunscreen. In the heat, I longed to jump in the water and swim through the waves. Swimming on the mind, I found this video when i got home--a BBC film of a very slowly progressing wave shot from below and inside. Mesmerizing. Waves are a good example of a seemingly simple phenomenon that, upon closer examination, is actually extremely complex. Ocean surface waves are made by wind moving over the surface of the ocean. They form a kind of circular motion--energy is moving forward, but there is little actual motion of matter forward, however much it looks that way. The EIS is working on ways to capture wave energy for the sake of generating power.