EARTHQUAKE!

I missed the Earthquake today. When I was very little I felt a tiny tremor from a tiny little seismic bump in our fault. No one believed me until the news reported it, but I was indeed right. All growing up in Missouri schools they told us about the New Madrid fault. Its not very active but one day, they told us, one day it will be. I've been waiting for that day my entire life. When California was having its bout of problems with their fault, this only spurred our school system to increase their teachings on what to do in a quake: videos, pamphlets, drills, you name it. Of course, I never wanted it to be as huge as those CA suffered from, I didn't want anyone to get hurt, but man was I ready for the day our Madrid would give us a full sneeze instead of a hiccup. AND I MISSED IT. So dissapointing. Apparently I've lived through a hurricane. A hurricane that did not produce one single drop of rain. Boo. This doesn't make up for missing the world around me shake. "Swear to shake it up, if you'll swear to listen". Well, dear Missouri and Illinois, I was listening. Oh well, my best friend called until I woke up this morning and whispered into the phone "i'm sorry to wake you, but we had an earthquake!"--if you would've heard it as she said it, you'd laugh too. I guess her mom didn't believe her when she woke her up, which made it even funnier. I called my parents and got their renditions of the event, which too brought laughter--laughter that brought tears; so it wasn't all bad or a total loss...it was a nice way to wake up, even if the world wasn't trembling around me.