Big San Francisco experience today.
Sitting at my desk working on a proposal, type type type, half listening to the meeting on the other side of the suspended glass partition screen, type type type, it's Friday, wonder if we'll go boogyboarding again tomorrow, type type type, is that two graphic recorders or one, type type type - WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT??? I turn towards the meeting to see the partition screen visibly shake - WAS THAT WHAT I THINK IT WAS?
Yup, an earthquake!!! No shit!
Now at this point it gets a little surreal. Everyone else in true California techno hippy freak style goes 'wow' lets check - and sit down at their computers! They all log onto the earthquake monitoring site (they all know the url by heart apparently) and sure enough, a 3.5 scale earthquake reported in Berkley. 'Oh a 3.5' they say. 'nothing worth talking about' they all say. - Freaks!
Eventually someone noticed me cowering under my desk, trying to call home to get the children out of the front garden and away from the impending tsunami. They enticed me out after some time, with a bar of chocolate and a miniature bottle of gin (which I keep in my handbag for such emergencies). Much hilarity ensued. It won't be that when the roof falls in and I'm the only one with spare batteries, toilet paper and a wind up radio. Oh no, they'll all want to be my friend then!
2 comments:
surely the first time the earth has moved for you for quite a while?
you'll be glad to know that i haven't outed myself as a blogger to the date yet, and don't intend to.
x
Was that a scottish miniature gin ie.a quarter bottle?
Told you living on the side of a cliff wasn't a good idea in San Fran. even if the view is stunning. Glad our survived x
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