Calistas, how earthquake-proofed is your home? I don't have anything framed hanging over anywhere I sleep, but nothing is tacked to the wall. I do have a tall bookshelf near my bed, and a tall lingerie chest of drawers, but because of the angles they can't fall on me, although they can dump their contents onto me.

The sleep cave is very earthquake-safe. Tall bookshelves are bracketed to the wall and I always make sure my kitchen cabinets are firmly closed. Otherwise, no. But I am happy I no longer work in a liquefaction zone.

There are five cars parked outside my house and people I've never seen before just hanging out in the street talking. It's a bit odd.

And by five I now mean all the way around the corner. I am perplexed. We never had this many cars on our street when we lived across from drug dealers!

I'm going to have to accept the inevitable, aren't I?

I'm going to have to accept the inevitable, aren't I?

I dunno, some of the folks on your FB post had some good ideas. I do think that going the non-official route might get you better results.

In DC, Metro trains are running at 15 mph and they're checking tracks for damage.

Three people who left the office more than two hours ago are still trying to get home (although they did get on trains). yay?

I'm working both options. Neither has given me results.

Aaaand my iPod just broke.

I'm going up to the roof to take a leap, now.

Thanks so much to the tweeters and linkers, by the way. So nice.

I think my apartment looks like I had a specific personal tornado.

I love that one of the things that the Post reported in their things to do in case of Earthquake was Stay Off the phone.

But everyone phones everyone when there has been an EVENT, right?

I'm the only one left in the office; it's OK for me to go home, right?