Earthquake Country

Although I was born and raised in Southern California, I've been living in the East Coast for the last 3 years and the worst I had to be ready for was snow storms. I had completely forgotten about earthquakes. Until I was standing in my tiny kitchen and almost got knocked off my ass two days ago. For a brief second, I thought it was a train. And then I realized it was indeed an earthquake. I ran outside and my whole neighborhood was outside smoking cigarettes. I met my neighbors who all seemed really nice. They are all SJSU students. My building was made in the 1920's so I assume its seen a lot of shake-age. When I walked back into my house however, I noticed there was some cracking near my windows. That was truly the largest earthquake I've ever experienced during my time in California. I guess that was my welcome back.

In terms of my new place, I love it. I have had no problems readjusting to life as a Californian. I hadn't realized how much NYC had shook up everything I believed to be normal. I take back everything I said about strip malls and suburbia. I've been living at Target for the last few days and its been awesome. Its nice to have products on the shelf for a change. Whenever I would go to the Pacific Street Target in Brooklyn, all the shelves were completely empty with the exception of the super expensive things. ie: all $9.99 toasters were gone, but the $69.99 toaster would still be there. Who the hell buys a $70 toaster? No one, that's why it was the only thing on the shelf. Other than that, I'm close to everything I need and I've been hanging out with my one friend almost everyday this week. In fact, we are going to an 80's club in San Francisco this week. I'm so happy with my life right now, I hadn't realized it could be this good. Of course, I haven't started work yet...