Some Remain So

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

. . . 22 days . . .

What a time to get sick. I woke up this morning feeling like someone had stuck a helium pump in each ear and started the flow. Of course, that would make me lighter than normal, so I guess that’s an inaccurate comparison.

Last night we had an earthquake at 4:35 am that registered 5.45 on the Richter scale, located 20 miles southwest of Vicennes, Indiana and 125 miles southwest of Indianapolis. It was felt, apparently, as north as the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, as far south as Georgia, as far west as Kansas, with structural damage in West Salem, Illinois and Louisville, Kentucky (hope all the horses were all right!) Strange, huh? So now I’ve been in two earthquakes - a small one in Milwaukee that nobody noticed, and a rather sizeable one here in Champaign that everyone is buzzing about.