Since last week [or the week before] someone started a dynamic here in the office, people would write the current day in the common board, and some messed up phrase... It think it's been mostly my brother the one who has perpetuated that idea, and we've seen things like "Wednesday: cha cha", "Monday: let us cry"... Some stuff like that. Anyway, today we had "Thursday: paranoia"... Little did we know that he is becoming a freaking foreteller.
[note: if we lived in some 1st world country we could sue our university because of the lack of security we have here. We work in something that is not far from the definition of a basement, with no fire exists or anything, which means that in the case of catastrophe we have to run up some small stairs, all across the building, and then run downstairs again in order to get out... Anyway]
At some point Hector and I went to get some coffee, and as we were standing there things started to jump up n' down, the boxes in the stand started dancing, and the appliances decided that shaking was fun... I realized that it was indeed coffee and not some messed up peyote tea when everybody around was freaking out. We were having a genuine earthquake, and it was one of the bad ones, the "up n down" ones. (They say that you could "listen" to the thing in the office, I don't doubt it, being that we are underground and all).
Of course offices and classrooms were evacuated and all that good stuff, snob as we are several guys had wireless laptops, so they decided to look for some info. And we found out that we had a 4.5 earthquake, with the epicenter in Jalisco, Guadalajara, close by a suburban area called "Nuevo Mexico"... -that sounds close- I thought... Yeah of course, when you see the business cards of this place, and look at the address, it's easy to read "Nuevo Mexico" in there, so we actually were in the freaking epicenter of the thing.
Yay!!!...
Too bad though, now we are back to our "regular activities"... *sigh*, I wonder if we will get a replica.
**cheers.
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Hey Mishka here, i just read each and every single post you have written (took me 3 days including vida en macomb) and it feels like i was reading a novel but it left me wondering what happened inbetween when you left macomb and when you started on the blog? i caught a few bits and pieces here and there but still left me wondering. (just goes to show i have much time on my hands while at work jeje)
You obviously don't know about the exit door right in the middle of the two tiny stairs you talk about. You aren't really in a basement, you just need to use a "stetic" stair up AND down every time... come on, I don't even work there... :P
We sort of really are Memo, this building is kind of "carved" in the ground, so our offices are about a meter below as I've been told, something like that. Those doors between the tiny stairs are always closed, and then there are huge gray metal doors to get actually out once you cross those studios... which are closed too. I heard we are, at least, asking to have keys to those in order to walk through that area.
Oh well, it's all fun.
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