It's not that my housemate's noisy at all: he's very considerate, but my bedroom is right next to the bathroom and to the boiler that heats the hot water, so I hear the water when it comes on, the extractor fan, the toilet flushing etc etc :-D I am intimately acquainted with all my housemates' bathroom habits. My previous housemate was a night-owl, and I'd get woken up at 2am when he came home from a night out: there's no pleasing me, really!

Also lol@ bonzo's stereo suggestion. I'm really poor, though; I don't even have a stereo! I'm gettiing an awful lot of reading done without my laptop.