all year i have put up with living next door to a big construction project (two new buildings of studio apartments), so i guess it figures that the last two weeks of the year would consist of the most annoying amount of noise coming from the site and disrupting my sleep. it’s hot outside and we have no air conditioning, so i leave my window open at night. yet leaving my window open means being woken up at 8 or 8:30 in the morning when the construction begins for the day. i’m not sure what they’re doing right now, but they’re using some sort of machine that produces a sound similar to and only slightly quieter than a jackhammer. it sort of sounds like one of those tree-eating machines, you know, where you throw in the branch and it spits out mulch. or maybe it’s a large and unusually noisy power generator. i have no idea. but it’s annoying. i’ve been getting eight hours of sleep, but the last hour or so always sucks because i get woken up by the noise, then i get up to close the window to make it a little quieter, and then it just gets stuffy and hot and i can’t sleep anyway. so then i just get up.
whine whine.
(3:39 p.m.)
best news i’ve heard all day: there is a possibility that i can get nasa to pay back my student loans under the office of personnel management’s federal student loan repayment program. it’s not guaranteed, and the program is fairly new so nasa might not even be a participant, so i’m trying not to get my hopes up…but if this thing works out, i swear to never, ever, ever again complain about being a civil servant.
