makeup artist. colour lover. gloss whore: 2014

....THE DUST OFF MY BLOG!!!

Nothing like a bit of thunderbolts-and-lightning-very-very-frightening to finally end a lengthy blogger's block. For the handful off you who didn't even register a slight tremor, you may now go back to your FOMO pity party. Sooorry ne!

I felt the earthquake.

The little wooden stool I was sitting on starting wobbling

I heard a rumbling noise

The sliding doors started shaking

Scary right?? Except that it took a few seconds to actually realise something not normal was happening. My first thought was that a truck was idling under the building. The others said it was probably the Gautrain passing underneath. We didn't know it was an earthquake until we were told to evacuate the building. Evacuate? Seriously??

We were shooting at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (people call it Gibs so don't look for a sign saying Gibs when you are booked to work there *shakes her vague callsheet*). Our venue was the Pavillion, a small building on the roof, a room with sliding doors really. I set up on the balcony and man was it windy, so windy that I thought my wooden stool was being blown over, yup my stupid brain thought a gust of wind was going to blow me over, bwaahaaa! Not even an earthquake could get me off that stool! Diet starts on Monday. So yeah we felt it, but probably because we were at the top of a building and surrounded by glass doors, not sure it would have been as dramatic in a normal building.

Two GIBS ladies, visibly stressed, came up and told us we need to evacuate the building. I looked down from the balcony and all the Brainies were already in the courtyard

Of course they want to be outside, they are stuck behind desks and in offices all day every day! Us Creatives on the other hand were set up and happy to stay put. Visibly Stressed Ladies became slightly panicky. They felt they couldn't leave their guests behind. No we are fine here really, the evacuation doesn't apply to us, right? We aren't actually part of GIBS, so we can just stay here, right?
Director: "You guys go, if we really need to evacuate come call me"
Producer: "What time will we be back? We are scheduled to shoot 5 minutes ago"
*VSL starting to hyperventilate*
Fine. We'll go. So we ambled along, discussing how it could have been a train, I suggested it might be a bomb in the basement (Hello Alexander Forbes a few weeks ago!")
"YOU CAN'T MENTION THE B-WORD!!!!"
.......Calm down, we're not at the airport, there is no Earthquake Police that will jump out and arrest me.

We sat in the sunshine for about 5 minutes before the Chef and waiters walked back in, they probably thought "Mxm, screw this, I've got muffins in the oven". Ain't nobody got time for earthquakes in Africa! The Brainies started getting antsy, enough fun for one day, back to work people. The big boss Nick let us back in and gave us strict instructions to return to the courtyard in the event of another earthquake, translation for 'Let's cover our bases cause we don't actually have an Earthquake Protocol', we don't actually have earthquakes here in Sunny South Africa! Sure we've had tremors before, but this was an actual earthquake, 5.3 on the Richter scale, sjoe!

Back to work people.

Except no one goes back to work after an earthquake!! Facebook and Twitter were flooded with news of the earthquake. But we South Africans aren't shocked for very long and soon enough most people had Earthquake Fatigue