Raccoons, making your ears bleed and a few other quick updates

Word,
So, last night I was awoken not once but twice as these two rather fat raccoons tried to scale the wall outside my bedroom. Cheeky buggers didn't even run off when I turned the light on, banged on the glass in the window and made all sorts of weird noises in an attempt to startle them and get them to run away. Of course all this was going on at 1:30 and then 3:30 am...needless to say, I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night. Those damn raccoons kept scaling the wall, sliding down it, chattering, grunting, sighing and trying to get into this terracotta planter (why, I have no idea). Finally I got them to run off by talking to them, guess my conversation wasn't all that interesting to raccoons:) Anyways, it all resulted in me being exhausted this morning, hitting the snooze button (which I discovered, doesn't work on my travel alarm clock) and waking up 20 minutes before my class started. Now, mind you, Bath, where I'm staying, is 15 minutes from MSU, so I didn't exactly make it on time. In the end I was only 10 minutes late, but have since felt frazzled all day. Stupid raccoons, I blame them.

New review up on Static. Read it here. The album made me think I was going to bleed from the ears it was so bad. I was rather pleased though, my editor ran my piece as I wrote it and it didn't get toned down which was a bit surprising since I was pretty damn mean.

Psyched for Warped this weekend and I get to cover it for Revolt. Now, if I could only get my hands on a press pass...
I also have a second date with the guy from a couple of weeks ago. I am being forced to play pool. I suck at pool. If I survive this humiliation, it will be a miracle.

That's it for now, back to class...
~S