Best Teambuilding Exercise Ever...

...at least when you've got a bunch of writers. Round-robin short story writing: split up into teams of 4 or 5. Each person gets 3 minutes to write 3 sentences, and then gets to pass the story to the next person in the group. Do this 5 or so times to complete a story. We ended up with half a dozen bone-chilling tales of secret editorial cabals, late documents reviews, broken printers and blue screens of death, plus the editor who took vengeance on the writer who murdered the style guide.

I'm hoping the person who collected the stories at the end will transcribe them so we can put them on our group website.

Hmmm...

Apparently, we had a decent-sized (5.6 on Richter scale) earthquake with the epicenter just about 7 miles east of where I'm sitting at this very moment, and I completely failed to notice. As far as I can work out, Daniel and I were in a moving car when it happened, so that's probably why we didn't notice.

I'm really not very earthquake observant. I once missed a biggish quake because I was reading a John Crowley novel. I got to lab the next day, and everyone was like, "Woah, did you feel the earth shake last night?" and I was like, "Well, sure, Engine Summer rocked my world, but you can't all have been reading it last night!" (Okay, no, really I said, "Duh...what?" But it makes a better story the first way, no?)