In which her house is shaking again
Oct. 13th, 2010 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahBut this time it's from the top: I've got people reroofing. It feels like a bunch of aftershocks in the general 4 range, except only the walls shake, not the floor, and of course the vibrations go in different patterns and directions. Anyway I hope the neighbours weren't trying to sleep in. And that Boots forgives me.
Ooh, this might be a good place to put my Annotated Richter Scale:
0-2: Yeah, that's not even a real earthquake.
3: Missed it.
4: Huh. So, as I was saying...
5: Oh hi Twitter folk, let's swap jokes and crash Geonet again!
6: It's not like we have to have one of these, right?(1)
7: Do. Not. Want.
8+: Seriously, God, can the Alpine Fault be a problem for future generations? Love you thanks bye.
(1) It is in fact getting increasingly unlikely but I still like the idea of taking a vote to be sure.
We haven't had any 4+s for a few days, and I knock on wood as I say this, though rather lackadaisically because there's bound to be some more scattered over the next month or so, but nevertheless we're well back on our way to geological stability. As I allude to in the Annotated Richter Scale, 4s are kind of boring by this point, however they're boring in a way that gets one's adrenaline pumping every single bloody time because in the split seconds as an earthquake starts your body doesn't know how big it's going to get.
I dropped an apple on the table the other day and Boots jumped and did a 180 spin in the air and took a moment to make sure the ground was going to stay behaving. And I'm going through a phase where it bugs me when my house creaks, which it does a lot when it's cooling or warming up or just idly thinking or whatever, because it also creaks like that in a 3.
But really things are pretty good again (bearing in mind that there's buildings being torn down and suburbs that will be on portaloos for months if not years - I've got an ex-colleague who shares their portaloo with three other households, and a current colleague who's lost her house, and slightly more distant colleagues who are in various positions between these situations) and the fact that I'm also in a phase where everyone who comes up to the library service desk fills me with rage, if not for some petty reason then just because they're there, is just because I haven't had a proper break since the quake.
Have booked in leave all week next week, and then discovered that this period abuts onto Labour Day, so I get 10 days in a row off work. I'm planning funtimes, in bed, sound asleep. I may even clean the kitchen floor but we'll see, I don't want to stress out too much.
Ooh, this might be a good place to put my Annotated Richter Scale:
0-2: Yeah, that's not even a real earthquake.
3: Missed it.
4: Huh. So, as I was saying...
5: Oh hi Twitter folk, let's swap jokes and crash Geonet again!
6: It's not like we have to have one of these, right?(1)
7: Do. Not. Want.
8+: Seriously, God, can the Alpine Fault be a problem for future generations? Love you thanks bye.
(1) It is in fact getting increasingly unlikely but I still like the idea of taking a vote to be sure.
We haven't had any 4+s for a few days, and I knock on wood as I say this, though rather lackadaisically because there's bound to be some more scattered over the next month or so, but nevertheless we're well back on our way to geological stability. As I allude to in the Annotated Richter Scale, 4s are kind of boring by this point, however they're boring in a way that gets one's adrenaline pumping every single bloody time because in the split seconds as an earthquake starts your body doesn't know how big it's going to get.
I dropped an apple on the table the other day and Boots jumped and did a 180 spin in the air and took a moment to make sure the ground was going to stay behaving. And I'm going through a phase where it bugs me when my house creaks, which it does a lot when it's cooling or warming up or just idly thinking or whatever, because it also creaks like that in a 3.
But really things are pretty good again (bearing in mind that there's buildings being torn down and suburbs that will be on portaloos for months if not years - I've got an ex-colleague who shares their portaloo with three other households, and a current colleague who's lost her house, and slightly more distant colleagues who are in various positions between these situations) and the fact that I'm also in a phase where everyone who comes up to the library service desk fills me with rage, if not for some petty reason then just because they're there, is just because I haven't had a proper break since the quake.
Have booked in leave all week next week, and then discovered that this period abuts onto Labour Day, so I get 10 days in a row off work. I'm planning funtimes, in bed, sound asleep. I may even clean the kitchen floor but we'll see, I don't want to stress out too much.
