"Just wrap your legs around these velvet rims, and strap your hands across my engines."

[greygirlbeast]

Yes, we did feel the earthquake yesterday. I was sitting in my chair, at my desk, and the entire house began to move, very subtly at first, and then hard enough that all the shit stacked on my bookshelves was threatening to topple over. The legs of my desk creaked, and there was an ominous popping sound from one corner. Spooky was cleaning in the

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[ardentdelirium]

There is no "romance," not even one little jot (okay, maybe one little jot, but it's a micro-jot). No sex. But it has a lot of profanity, which I expect some poor traumatized souls find "triggery," but fuck them if they can't take exquisitely filthy words like "cocksucker" and "televangelist."* True Blood and Anita Blake, this is my middle finger, condensed into eight chapters.
Love!

I work on Capitol Hill, and most of us assumed it was a bomb in the caphill subway between the office buildings and congress. or construction. or a big truck. I, in my infinite wisdom and stellar survival skills, asked facebook if there was an earthquake when I realized it probably wasn't the staffer in the next cube twitching his foot violently.

[martianmooncrab]

if they can't take exquisitely filthy words

professional politician, moral majority, book censorship...

[r_darkstorm]

The earthquake was really freaky to me, as I'm in Virginia, about 150mi away from the epicenter. However, my first reaction was one of "whoa, neat!" because I was a Geology major, way back when, and the subject still fascinates me. Anyway, hope you have no property damage. USGS site had interesting things to say about it.

[greygirlbeast]

However, my first reaction was one of "whoa, neat!"

Yep. My comment on Facebook was, "I love it when the earth does stuff."

[slothman]

A coworker who came out to Silicon Valley from Washington, DC was surprised at how the Californians had such a small reaction to earthquakes. I told him: “The way to look like a Californian in an earthquake is to be very blasé about it, possibly ambling over to stand in a doorway if things start swinging, and only getting under a desk if you’re seeing things fall off shelves or windows break. Afterward, in a speculative tone, offer a couple of numbers between four and six, with one digit after the decimal point, even though that would be meaningless without being at the epicenter.” (Yes, I was born and raised in California...)

[greygirlbeast]

I think the blasé West Coast attitude towards earthquakes is the result of the evolution of a necessary coping mechanism via a sort of denial of the inevitable cataclysm.

[baka_kit]

So true! Until the Big One comes ...

[docbrite]

not even one little jot

How about a tittle?

[greygirlbeast]

How about a tittle?

Nope. Just a micro-jot.