Earthquake!….oh, wait, old news… (Raquel)
Yes, I’m a little behind the times, but hey, everyone else was posting about their earthquake experiences, why shouldn’t I?
Unlike some people, who completely slept through the Great Illinois Quake of ‘08, I was awakened by the earthly vibrations. Well, that is, more or less awakened. Through a very sleepy fog I deduced that my bed was shaking, that this was very odd and had never happened before, and that it clearly had no rational explanation. And having no rational explanation there was clearly nothing I could do about it but pray something sleepily incoherent and figure God would sort it all out.
Still, I found it disturbing enough that I drifted further toward consciousness, and eventually decided that the whole experience was probably a dream and went back to sleep. The next morning I saw a small army of blogs and e-mails discussing an earthquake, and cleverly connected this to my ‘dream’ the night before. Personally, I still find the dream explanation to be far more rational than the idea of an earthquake in the middle of Illinois, however I am willing to accept the earthquake as reality in order to gain the title of an Earthquake Survivor.
Yay! I Survived the Earthquake of 2008! And I didn’t even (exactly) sleep through it!
I made a cake for myself and decorated it with, “I survived the Illinois Quake 2008.” I thought about bringing it for the church on Sunday but didn’t want to risk offending anyone. The fact that I decorated a cake for myself now officially makes me weirder than you.