Do you know what they need to do with people like us? Segregate us from everyone. I can't afford to listen to music when I'm working. It even pisses me off when my poor girlfriend begins doing chores, because it breaks my train of thought. There's no way I can blame anybody else (especially my perfect AF gf) for how miserably quiet things aren't. I'm living at the center of one of the biggest cities in the world, for cryin' out loud (...shhh!!). So now, I work at night, because I can sleep through the noise of the day, but I can't think through it. And so, Mr. A++ Devac, what I'm trying to say is that I'd feel even more like a jerk if you came along and implied "Nope, it's fine! I can study and code in between listening to my neighbor's demonstration that they have no future as a metronome!". You're not alone! ...but you wish you were, most of the time, amirite?? ;)