Another Quake
Got hit by another quake, this one as I was winding up a class. The quake measured 5.2 (some reports say 5.4) on the Richter scale, but was centered off the coast, so it wasn’t huge in town–it never got to the we’d-better-leave-the-room scale or anything. But the class did shake and rattle some. At that point in time, a student was giving her PowerPoint presentation, and as the students in the class reacted to the quake nervously, this one student just kept going right through her presentation without so much as blinking.
Turned out, afterwards, we found out she was the only one in the class that didn’t even notice the quake! She was so focused on what she was doing–and was pretty surprised to hear that it was the room that was shaking.
I know exactly how she felt.