Brrrrzwhrrrr

I'm not usually a very OCD sort of person. Many family and roommates can attest to my total lack of obsessive cleaning or whatever. But every so often, my mind will get stuck on something. This is particularly true when I'm trying to fall asleep, but not completely relaxed and dead tired (the idea conditions for me to fall into long, blissful sleep).

Tonight, I have become fixated on the damn air conditioner.

Right now, it's only 67° according to AccuWeather, but it feels a lot warmer in the apartment, mostly because it's not a terribly easy to ventilate space. (I don't know why, it just. Isn't.) So yes, I do feel bad running the a/c but whatever. (Al Gore, I haven't forgotten your slide show, but honestly, you take jets everywhere. If you get to do that, I get to run the air while I try to sleep, 'k?)

However, the air conditioner has decided to make a really, really annoying sound. I am pretty sure it's because we bought the cheapest model available at Home Depot (and ughhhhh that was such an excruciatingly irritating process that I never ever want to think of it again, but let me just say: NO one should EVER shop there EVER AGAIN, especially not the super super crappy one at 59th and Lex, ESPECIALLY not if you what home delivery this century) and it's made of cheap flimsy plastic that isn't particularly, well, sound.

It'll be quietly humming along and then suddenly burp out a horrible BRRWRSZWSERRT sort of sound. Over and over for like, five minutes. Then it'll go back to humming until I'm almost asleep and BERRRRWWWZHHHRRRR!!!

This didn't bother me last year. But for some reason, lately, I can't stop thinking about it. Even when I do sleep, the odd noises haunt my dreams. I'll dream about hunting down the noise and stopping it, only to have not really made it go away at all (kind of like those dreams where you have to pee and keep looking for bathrooms only to find you still have to go? except with a noise. and less bed-wetting potential.)

I've tried putting heavy things on top of the a/c, because I have this stupid idea that it'll stop the plastic from vibrating so much, except I'm not even sure the vibrating plastic is really the problem. It sounds so much more... internal. But then, I have no idea. Maybe I just need to buy a new air conditioner, this time from some place I don't hate.