Late September 1963. What a very special time for me.

Anyway. For those of you who I haven't been constantly bitching to on IM (sorry, Deuce), here's a rundown of what happened this week so far.

- I had this intense pain in my nose and front teeth. I went to a doctor, who said it was probably my teeth. So I went to a dentist, who said it was probably my sinuses. So I went to an ear nose and throat doctor, who looked down my nostrils with a fiber-optic camera and said I definitely didn't have a sinus infection, so it was probably my teeth. So I called my dentist, who spoke to the dentist I had gone to that day, who both agreed that it was definitely not my teeth and was probably my sinuses. So I went back to the first doctor and got him to give me antibiotics. This was all in the course of two days. I feel better now.

- We've had problems with animals in the apartment. Last week a squirrel got in, and then the next day we called the police over because of the possibility of a rabid squirrel living outside our window. I kid you not. So the other night we hear an animal scratching in this hole we have in our floor by our radio. At the same time, we found a trail of blood on our carpet that extended for about 3 feet which was, to say the least, disconcerting. Brooke and I head to Lowes to get some insulation to stuff the hole, and when we come back, there's a skunk. In my bedroom. It climbed out of the hole. So we freak, and leave the bedroom. Several panicked phone calls later, we go back in the bedroom, stuff the hole with the insulation (I hate insulation) and head to my Mom's to spend the night. Brooke went back the next morning and the insulation was all gone, and the skunk had obviously been poking around the apartment, turning over garbage bags and such. Brooke calls the landlord, who fills the hole (and the huge void beneath our bedroom floor that we had no idea about) with broken cinder blocks. We may be sleeping at my mom's indefinitely. The good thing that came out of this is the landlord mentioned an apartment coming open upstair. I pray to the good lord above that we can move in there.

- I mailed off my thing to the guy. I think it turned out pretty well, and I don't expect anything to necessarily come of it, but it was a good experience. I'll tell you what the hell I'm talking about when it all sorts itself out.

- I got free tickets to REM tomorrow. I'm not THE world's biggest REm fan, but I like 'em, and I haven't been to a concert in over a year. So, rawk!