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Do me a favor. Listen to this mp3 file (preferably with good speakers or headphones - it's pretty quiet, so don't hesitate to crank it) and tell me how it makes you feel, at what point during the track, if any, this feeling changes, and what personal experience with earthquakes you have.

Earthquakephobes (meaning an irrational fear of quakes or PTSD from a major quake, not simply a healthy respect for the damage earthquakes can cause) may wish to skip it. If you're reading this and not on my friends list, you're more than welcome to participate. In fact, I'd appreciate it, as a disproportionate number of people on my friends list live/lived in California.

Comments screened for now, so as not to effect your answers. I'll discuss more later.

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If you haven't already, please listen to the mp3 in this post and respond. Also, feel free to pass on the link. I really am curious about it.

Yes, I know, I'm posting too much today. So I'll condense this with another post. I got a 109% on my paper! Yay! At this point I basically need to get 50% or so on my final to keep an A in the class. I think I can probably manage that. Today was the last "real" class - just the final left on Thursday.

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Leif just had a nightmare or night terror or something that seemed to take him forever to wake up from, though realistically it was probably more like 5-10 minutes (which really is an awful long time in terms of trying to wake someone). I moved him from where he was sleeping on the big bed to his own bed, and he started crying and kicking and generally throwing a fit, and wouldn't snap out of it completely until we took him out and drove him around in the car with the light on for a while. And Beeb was throwing a fit too, because this all disrupted her when she was trying to go to sleep.

For a while they were both being so inconsolable that I worried we'd need to take them to the ER.

Now both of them are finally asleep again, Leif with the help of My Neighbor Totoro, which he apparently finds as comforting as I do. And I'm feeling suddenly drained myself, which may be not so suddenly, because it's now 11:00, and when I last looked at the clock and thought how awake I felt and how nice it was that both kids were going to sleep so early, it was around 9:30.

*yawn*