Earthquakes: My parents have a few stories about being in Cali as newly-married desert dwellers and facing that. weirdly, those are the more normal Riverside stories, though--I don't have a Giles to check on it, but I suspect the area was part of some kind of convergence in the early seventies. So they came back here...devil you know, much? Workshop: I hope I get some good feedback or meet somebody cool. Even if it's not all that, it should be great compared to the game I've played all month: "What Did I Do With My Christmas Money?" as I pondered everything else that a (comparatively) big chunk of cash could do for me and wonder if my decision was a poor one. Which I know sounds like it's on the border between humblebragging and insanity, but I used to do it every time I pre-ordered *anything*, so I am actually coming along a bit. I think the combination of growing up a kid that couldn't do chores for money and then landing on "benefits recipient" has left me insecure about my decision-making, just because there hasn't been that much of it. And there are two things that are real that are feeding this time more than others, right-- the Medicaid cuts thing--like, what if we need the money next year, and all I got was some stupid feedback, or, say, the virtual equivalent of camp friends, where you write back twice. And, like, everyone has bought something kind of expensive(at least at the time) that sucked. I need this not to be one of those. But I also need to get over it.