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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?)