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squintygirl aka Michelle Chow is a 36.29 year old girl, has been a member since June 22, 2006, has scored 163,164 submissions, giving an average score of 2.18, helping 1,990 designs get printed.
I'm just sitting at my desk and thinking to myself, 'Since when did I get on a roller coaster without realizing?'. Freaky shit, man, freaky.
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courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:04pm
you're crazy. they don't shake the earth up there.
tracerbullet
   tracerbullet on Jun 23 '10 at 1:04pm
yikes! hope nothing broke!
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:05pm
Apparently it was also felt in Ottawa, Montreal, New York state and Vermont.

Holy crap.
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Jun 23 '10 at 1:05pm
Welcome to our world!
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Jun 23 '10 at 1:06pm
"Our" being Californians'.
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:06pm
i can't imagine what an earthquake feels like. so crazy! how shaky was it?
Bio-bot 9000
Bio-bot 9000 on Jun 23 '10 at 1:07pm
maybe Canada needs to get away from the U.S. for some alone time.
funkie fresh
   funkie fresh on Jun 23 '10 at 1:08pm
Felt it at work too. Everyone's just like WTF?!?!
Ryder Revolution
   Ryder Revolution on Jun 23 '10 at 1:08pm
NOOO! tell me the maple syrup bottles didn't break!!!
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:08pm
Nothing fell off the walls or anything, but it felt like someone was pushing my chair back and forth quickly for about 20 seconds. My coffee sloshed a bit and now I have to get new coffee. Fuck you, earthquake!
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:09pm
omg
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:09pm
what fault line is toronto by?!
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:10pm
sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:09pm
what fault line is toronto by?!


I don't think it even has a name. I'm now calling it the It's All Your Fault Fault Line.
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:10pm
how big was it??
franx
   franx on Jun 23 '10 at 1:10pm
i felt it too.
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:10pm
"my bad" -fault line
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:12pm
Who's Fault Line Is It Anyway?
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:14pm
Courtney, it was probably about a 3.0, nothing major. But for a place that's used to none, it was crazaaaay!
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:14pm
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

there's more, I love reading the list and seeing where they happen.
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:14pm
according to that it was a 5.5 which isn't anything to sneeze at!
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:15pm
if you click on your quake - the next page has a 'did you feel it' link. I fill those out too
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:15pm
Wait, it was 5.5? Now that's crazaaaaay!
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:16pm
Funny thing is, I did sneeze when it finished!
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Jun 23 '10 at 1:16pm
i felt it! it was awesome. my cat did not like it though...

=O_O=
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 23 '10 at 1:17pm
whoa, that was a pretty big magnitude earthquake.
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Jun 23 '10 at 1:17pm
5.5? no fucking way...
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Jun 23 '10 at 1:18pm
did not feel that crazy to me. honestly, when it started i just assumed the streetcar/big truck combo were going by my apartment which often shakes everything. only difference was that the quake made it last a little longer, but it wasn't really anymore forceful. (@third floor, dufferin/dundas)
spacesick 2
spacesick 2 on Jun 23 '10 at 1:18pm
eep
HorsefaceDee
   HorsefaceDee on Jun 23 '10 at 1:19pm
i didnt even feel it..and I am on the 12th floor....
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:20pm
I'm trying to find the fault map.. I know it's there somewhere.

lol @ how I have all this quake info on hand. such a Californian.
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:23pm
Normally, I can feel our office shake when the subway passes beneath us, but this was much stronger than that. I felt like the way my grandmother used to shake me when she thought she was just lightly patting my shoulder.
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 1:34pm
I like the rolling ones better, but not after it's over and the building is still swaying. Makes me motion sick Ha
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 1:55pm
Apparently, it originated in Quebec. That whole province owes me a coffee.
Ryder Revolution
   Ryder Revolution on Jun 23 '10 at 2:03pm
maybe it was just a moose stampede...

mooses? moosen? meeses? moose + 1
Phiffer
Phiffer on Jun 23 '10 at 2:07pm
you like the rolling ones do you CP...
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 2:09pm
they're more fun and less scary, amIright?
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 2:11pm
Moose + 1 owes me a coffee.
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 2:13pm
Moose + 1 makes me think of Aubrey and her dog Moose
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 2:14pm
or mooseinmyshoe Sarah
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 2:21pm
I'd share my coffees with them. And all of you.
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 23 '10 at 2:21pm
LOL, thinking of Aubrey as Moose's 'plus one'.
littlem
littlem on Jun 23 '10 at 2:31pm
i felt it, too.
no i didn't.
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 3:04pm
pets are owners and owners are pets.
0Jim0
   0Jim0 on Jun 23 '10 at 3:06pm
we got some of it up here in Sudbury too.
juliejeremiah
juliejeremiah on Jun 23 '10 at 3:07pm
I wanna feel an earthquake. I never have!
Rambunkcious
Rambunkcious on Jun 23 '10 at 3:09pm
I like earthquakes lol they make me laugh, except for when stuff breaks then Im like gaaaah earth!
ratkiss
   ratkiss on Jun 23 '10 at 3:10pm
It was here too! Weird.
juliejeremiah
juliejeremiah on Jun 23 '10 at 3:11pm
You crazy earth, you!
courtney pie
courtney pie on Jun 23 '10 at 4:43pm
I like the California cheese commercials with the happy cows cause the ground is moving and its like a massage
squintygirl
squintygirl on Jun 24 '10 at 7:32am
So the milk gets churned inside the cow. How efficient!

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squintygirl your spirit animal would be a seal often called the mermaids of the sea, you would have sweet whiskers that would tickle all the children that you play with and protect from the sharks. You have strong characteristics of Seals, because you are special and make killer pancakes, which is something that most seals are known for. Your skin is silky smooth, and when you swim really fast you look like a huge gray sausage zooming under the water.


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My Long and Boring Back Story
When I was a young lass, I had the most incredible eyesight. I could read small typed pages from across the room and identify licence plates from a staggering distance. It was really cool. For a while there, I was invincible. INVINCIBLE!

Life, however, always has a funny way of crash-landing you back to reality, and over the course of a few years, my eyesight went from fantastic to average to poor to complete crap. I would sit in class and squint at the blackboard all day and have absolutely no idea what I was looking at. In Grade Five, I became an expert note-taker by just writing down EVERYTHING my teacher said (which, incidentally, became a very handy skill none of my board-copying schoolmates had mastered when we all needed it in university) and spent my nights begging my mother for glasses. She didn't believe me. Also, she thought they would make me look nerdy.

I walked around half-blind for almost three years until the fateful day my mom caved in and took me to the eye doctor, hurray! But what was it that finally convinced dear Mum?

Was it the fact that I kept tripping on things I couldn't see in the street? No.

Was it the fact that three of my teachers and the school nurse told my mother that I needed glasses, IMMEDIATELY? No.

Was it the fact that I had to hold a book a centimetre from my face to actually make out the words? No.

What convinced my mom to take me to the eye doctor was my squinting and how much she hated it.

'You look like you're smelling boiled cabbage all the time, stop making that face!'

'You're going to have terrible wrinkles when you get older, stop making that face!'

'It's going to freeze like that forever, you know, stop making that face!'

And 'squintygirl' was born. It was, however, the same day I finally got glasses (the ugliest glasses you could ever possibly imagine, natch), so I never had to squint again. Nevertheless, I felt such an affinity for and alliance with squintygirl, that she stayed with me through successively uglier pairs of glasses as the years passed.

Today, I have less ugly glasses and still don't squint, but I continue to salute that industrious little girl. Incidentally, my face never did freeze that way, but I am worried about wrinkles, now that I'm a member of Threadless' Old Farts Club. I guess Mom was right about something. (She was also right about the nerdy thing, too.)

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