So I'm sitting at my desk, happily scribbling away about the past scholarship and problematic issues surrounding healing miracles in medieval lives of saints, when all of a sudden my desk starts to shake. And my chair.
Maybe there's a truck going by. No, it's taking too long. Maybe someone's jumping up and down? Why the heck would they do that at 1am?
So it subsides and I poke my head out of my door. Most of my floormates are doing the same thing.
"Did you just feel that?"
"Was that an earthquake?"
"Did anyone else feel that?"
"It wasn't just me?"
"It woke me up!"
"I thought it was someone on the fire escape!"
"My first earthquake! Cool!"
"I haven't felt that since the Halloween party!"
"Amazing how many of us are still awake at 1 am."
"Did you feel that?"
About ten of us were clustered around our stairwell, peering up and down to confer. It was really quite comical. Tomorrow I will buy a newspaper and see if it's mentioned. I didn't realise England had perceptible earthquakes.
And now, back to the difficulties in conceptualising and identifying disability in medieval hagiography.
Someone directed me to this amazing website. It seems we had a Magnitude 4.7 quake. Pretty fun.
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That's the same website I found when we had a VERY rare earthquake a few years ago here in upstate NY. Aren't they cool! Well, earthquakes are cool when they don't cause damage, I guess. :)
I clicked on the link and it told me i was forbidden to be on the site.
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