Ok, this may disgust some of you, but for the sake of... uhm... whatever it may be, just bear with me for a bit. So it turns out that I've never really bothered to clean my A/C filter... for like 4 seasons... -.-;; My mom's surprised I haven't died of some kind of a respiratory disease... Well, just to be on the safe side I left a voicemail on my landlord's machine asking her how I should go about changing the filter cuz I didn't want to break the A/C... I got back home from work later that night and found a small piece of paper underneath my door that read:

1. lift cover up
2. remove filter
3. clean filter
4. put cover back on

I am an idiot.