Bad, Noisy Luck Almost Humorous

There seems to be a rule in the universe that says that any media research lab must be plagued with noisy construction. I hear, for example, that they are tearing out walls again in iceman Hall, making things noisy for the Institute for Communication Research at Indiana University.

Things have been noisy here, too. For the last two weeks, they were tearing up the concrete driveway next to my lab. Today a cement truck has set up show directly below my window. I never really knew how loud a cement truck could be. Luckily, a wall and some high quality headphones separate our participants from all this noise, but COME ON PEOPLE!