earplugs, pls

The roof of the library building is being replaced. Work started this morning. I've been listening to slightly-muted creaks, bangs, crashes, and footsteps for hours, and it's really freaking me out. Especially when the roofers run; it makes the metal in the air ducts clank. Sounds like an earthquake coming from above rather than below.

A coworker asked if I'd noticed all the noise. Seriously, they sound like the aliens in the air vents during the abduction scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Creepy.

Four weeks of this.