This morning a bit past 9 I was working on some classwork when suddenly a loud noise startled Buddy and I. At the same time as the noise, I felt like I'd moved - my equilibrium felt just a tiny bit off for a few seconds. I stepped out of my room and was like "What the Heck was that?!" My stepdad said he thought maybe it was a large flock of birds on the roof getting into a fight.
A few hours later I got a text from stepdad asking me about what time I'd heard/felt the noise. Turns out there was an earthquake in Oklahoma (possibly near OK City) at 9:06 a.m. People in Texas as far as San Antonio reported feeling something.
I know it may be kind of silly to be excited about having experienced my first earthquake ... but here's a couple reasons why:
1. I lived in CA for two years. Before moving there (for my first teaching job) I'd been petrified about living in CA and being in an earthquake. None happened (at least that I'm aware of).
2. Two different times in the past two years when I went to CA for a visit, two to three days later that area experienced an earthquake.
3. It's pretty far out that an earthquake could happen here/be felt here. It happened in an area with no mapped fault. They're speculating that its a result of the injection wells in OK.
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In contrast to my tutoring rant from yesterday, today's two students were awesome. Both moms had the money out and ready to go (one even paid me for the next two weeks.) The first boy with ADHD was in a good attitude, and was getting what we were doing. And the second boy who I work with on essay writing for timed tests as well as vocabulary, really seemed to enjoy our session today where we wrote a descriptive essay on his moms table centerpiece. 
He also told me that he used one of his vocab words at school - they were working on adjectives - he gave the example of "glum". 
My First Earthquake!
October 14th, 2010 at 02:20 am
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October 14th, 2010 at 06:10 am 1287036602
There are a lot of hidden faults in the US - most faults are discovered after the earthquake.
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My first earthquake was when I Was 3 or 4. IT was in the middle of the night, and my parents could not convince me that there wasn't a monster under my bed.
My scary earthquake memory has to be Loma Prieta, of course. I've probably been in dozens of non-memorable earthquakes.
October 14th, 2010 at 10:36 pm 1287095786
In Seattle we had an insurance rider on our home insurance policy ... It never crossed my mind that I might need one in Texas!
October 16th, 2010 at 01:43 am 1287193426
MonkeyMama - I liked my little earthquake here. However, one such as the Loma Prieta (that was the one in 1989 right?) I would NOT care for!