We had an earthquake drill at school yesterday. Imagine, the school secretary comes on the pa system and calmly tells us that there is an earthquake. The students all crawl under their tables for the allotted 30 seconds, then file out of the front door and down the street to a big open field where they get yelled at by the superintendent because the high schoolers didn't take the whole drill thing seriously. Then all 800 or so of us file back up the street and into school where the teachers dutifully admonish the students for the need to take drills seriously.

We'll do the same thing again today, except it will be a fire drill, so no hiding under the tables. I guess practicing is a good thing but it's hard to get much teaching done, what with all this walking down the street and hanging around in the sunshine. Hopefully those pesky high schoolers will be more serious today.