July 29, 2008
Earthquake - or “We interrupt your regularly scheduled workday…”
Here I sit in a client’s office in Los Angeles, still trying to recover for the 5.8 earthquake that just rocked the area about an hour ago. I’m still a little queasy (probably adrenalin aftermath) and a little shaky (my insides as well as the building movement)…
I gotta tell ya, it’s really thrown off my concentration. I can’t focus on what I was doing when the quake struck; I can’t focus on what I’m supposed to be accomplishing right now; and just when I think I’m OK and ready to get back to it, the lights freekin’ flicker! Like, every 2-3 mins - just enough to be annoying as well as a reminder that “Things aren’t like they were this morning”. So, here’s my deal with myself: when the lights stop flickering, I’ll start working on diagramming a process again.
Till then, it’s hangin’ around on Twitter and hopin’ that I can continue to fake out the client with my perceived nonchalance - all while silently screaming “I want my mommy!” in my head… and I’ll gladly pay the big trucks that rumble by the building $100 if they take another route - their passing feels too much like aftershocks.
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Bruce Linton said,
July 29, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Ah, Mary,
Earthquakes are just Mother Nature having a bad tummy day, for the most part.
Glad you’re OK though.