Annoying.

[offbalance]

They're taking a building down next to my office.  For whatever reason, this needs to happen one brick at a time.  They've been banging and drilling nonstop ALL DAY LONG, and it's starting to really, really get to me.  ::twitch::  I grew up in New York, and I'm fairly accustomed to most city sounds, but this is above and beyond what's tolerable. 

It's actually making it very difficult to concentrate.  I mean, I know I can be slightly magpie-ish on a good day, but I actually want to concentrate, here.   I want to get work done and draft and edit things.  And I can't.  Gah.  And the worst thing is that this (as well as two cups of green tea) have made me really edgy today.  And I shouldn't be edgy today, as most of the office is not in due to Yom Kippur.  The phone has barely rung.  It's been blissfully quiet, aside from the jackhammering. 

It sounds like a jackhammer trying to drill through metal on a soundstage with an amplifier mic broadcast through really good headphones.   Blah.   So not okay, people!

Comments

[tacologic.livejournal.com]

A year or two ago, there were guys drilling holes into the building. All day long. It was like a month-long trip to the dentist. :P

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the lucky few who has never had a cavity in her lifetime (yet, anyway), so I'm not familiar with the sensation. If this is what its like, I'm flossing after every meal from now on.

[nemesisbecoming.livejournal.com]

you mean the one of the corner of 53rd and mad? Yup. Looking right at it.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The construction and demoltion that just.doesn't.end.