and that was an earthquake
Now that I’m back home in Toronto, work gets a little too busy and and life is too familiar to blog about, but today was a special day.
We were sitting in our office: Mark at his desk, me at my desk, David at his and Adam, our new intern member of team Aesthetec, also at his desk. As usual, we all stared at our monitors with fingers clicking away, typing or browsing or whatever. When all the sudden I felt the floor move. Kind of like when you’re in a boat where everything sways, or a trampoline where someone else is jumping and you’re riding along.
I looked up to Mark, who was looking up at me, both of us were getting ready to say “hey, stop that” to each other, but realizing that we weren’t doing it. We turned to look at Adam, he looked at both of us and with hands raised, said, “hey, it’s not me!” We all continued looking at each other, not knowing what to do. Is it the neighbour’s loud music? (but there’s no music!) Is it a big truck going by? (but we don’t hear no truck!) And then after a bit, it stopped.
“What the heck was THAT?!”
Bewildered, we all turned back to our computers and resumed the tasks at hand. Mark wondered if it was an earthquake. And I wondered if this part of the world actually gets earthquake. Then we shrugged.
I finished an email I was writing, then checked my twitter feed five minutes after we’d dismissed it.
Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the Internet soon confirmed that there actually was, an earthquake, being felt all over from Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and even some parts of the U.S. Earthquake is not known to happen around here, but I suppose mother nature always has a couple tricks up her sleeves (or we humans just have short memory).
For archival sake, here’s my Tweetie screen shot from when it happened (taken retroactively):
Might have been a freak of nature, a once in a blue moon occurance kind of thing, but I’m proud to say that I FELT IT.