So here I am, sitting on the sixth (and top) floor of my office. Idiotically, I volunteered to do a project over my 20 day Christmas vacation…what I

5.8 Earthquake Centered about 20 miles SE of Mexicali

was thinking, I still don’t know. In any case, I’m the ONLY PERSON on the floor.

As I pour through some CSS my monitor does a little shimmy (I would compare it to a chubby girl doing a quick hula dance). From my back, I hear some unnatural creaking, cracking and groaning sounds coming from the core of the building.

I am by no means a stranger to earthquakes, but being high atop a building, alone, wondering if its going to take the plunge…not my favorite moment of 2009.

Thankfully, the quake didn’t last long, and I only felt 2 of the aftershocks. I still haven’t heard how Mexicali is doing, but the quake was a 5.8 so I have to assume there was some damage down there.

Here’s to no earthquakes in 2010!