 at luncheon with some teacher friends uh two days before the quake the day before the quake i felt compelled to clean my house from top to bottom and i'm normally quite content to leave books on the dust balls and the dishes in the sink and go to my studio and paint but she was driven like maybe a pregnant woman was yes for giving birth have to make the nest right for something that's coming the next day she tried she went to bed without supper that night