Earthquake????
It's 4:47am and I just woke up because I was shaking and then heard my bird going crazy and his cage rattling (and him falling down).
Now, the question is: Was this shaking due to a weak earthquake or something my upstairs neighbors did as they were waking up?
UPDATE (04:54): USGS website just updated and there was a 5.4mg in southeast Illinois! I submitted my report. :-)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008qza6.htmlUPDATE (14:12): Downgraded to 5.2mg earlier today. There was a decent aftershock, but I didn't feel that. When I went into my bedroom this morning, I saw that I had one earthquake casualty: one picture fell down from my picture board right by my bird cage. Sad.
Journals
I just want to throw out there that journals are wonderful things. I've found a whole collection of journals that I've kept over the years and it is purely amazing reading through them. Even though my entire life isn't documented in these, the few bits and pieces that are, whether by prose or poetry, help me see how far I've really come (or not so far, in some cases.)
One type of journal I kept for a while was a prayer journal. Out of all of them, that was the most revealing (other than some of my poetry.) Maybe it's just so cool to me because I have a horrible memory, but I love going back to right before college and seeing things I prayed for and how things evolved and came to life, especially when it was in ways I didn't expect.
I even found in the back of the prayer journal a list of qualities that I wanted in a guy. Surprisingly, these have not really changed, but I find it kind of humorous that I actually wrote it down. Reminds me of looking back at elementary school entries where I wrote down the all boys that I liked. Maybe something like that is good to write down though (the qualities, not the boys.)
Anyway, journals are cool. And they help me remember that I really was a 'normal' adolescent, help rejuvenate me when I'm feeling spiritually lazy, and help me realize recurring sin in my life. Sometimes it's painful reading, but in the long run, still amazing. :-)
Quotes....
I'm completely exhausted from work and everything else going on right now... nearly to the point of being worthless. It's taking me twice as long to type normal sentences and half of the time, it doesn't make sense.
I'm sure there'll be more to come (this isn't even including the mistyped things I've gone through today), but here are a few quotes so far today:
"Nice response time. You're worse than a mercury thermometer encased in wood!"
"Heater = Overflow"
"24 years ago, I was a tomato."
