It is currently the middle of the afternoon and I am not at work. Instead I am at the Brentwood Starbucks enjoying a Pike's Place and my 2 hours of free wi-fi.

It is raining but I don't care. My afternoon is still lovely.
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Spinning down 12 flights of stairs (i.e., 24 left-turns) into the basement? In the middle of the workday? And then just sitting there waiting for the tornado warning to lift? Adds a touch of surreal to the day.

Just sayin.

OMG we had an earthquake around 4:30 this morning! It woke me straight up out of bed.

I woke up out of a sound sleep because the bed was shaking. When I was first waking up I thought the bed was shaking because an intruder was hopping into my bed, so I screamed and shot straight up. Once I got my eyes open I realized that there was no intruder ( ( Read more... )

Slush is falling from the sky! It's not quite rain, but it's not quite snow either. How cool! How fun ( Read more... )

 Our temperature in St. Louis went from 73 degrees at noon to 15 degrees now. Um, yeeeeeeeah.

Needless to say, that produced some strong winds. Standing in the middle of my apartment, I could feel it shaking. And I'm not talking about the windows rattling -- I could feel the shaking in the FLOOR.

Freaky.

71 degrees? Seriously? SEVENTY-ONE?!? This is ridiculous.


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