Mouse Quest

I had to take my weekly online quiz for Psychology today, but last night, the keypad on my laptop stopped working. I panicked and thought that I would have to buy a new laptop. Then, I came to the realization that, if only the keypad wasn't working, then I didn't need a new computer, just a new mouse.

So I went to the store. Turns out buses only come on hourly intervals on Sunday. In my head, I was planning my trip and trying to time it so that I would still have time to do my test. I figured that, if it took me an hour to get there, then I missed one bus and came back on the next, then in a worst-case scenario the mouse doesn't work and I do need a new computer, then I could go back to the store and still have an hour to do the test.

See, I didn't trust my technical knowledge to be assured that the mouse was the actual problem. If it was some kind of internal issue with detecting movement, then it wouldn't be the keypad that stopped working, but the mouse-detection function. So I wanted to set enough time aside that I was sure to be able to do two trips.

But when I got there, I didn't know which mouse I wanted: a corded or non-corded one? I didn't know if my computer was only compatible with certain mouses (mice? I think it's mice because the French translation translated the word "mouse", which means it is based on the animal, not just a homonym).

There was only one corded option. I wondered if non-cord mice were so commonplace now that new computers only accounted for them. But then I worried that my computer was so old, it wouldn't be able to handle technology as new as a non-cord mouse.

I called home and asked my mom all kinds of questions about mice, and she told me to just get the corded mouse. When I bought it, I found out that, not only was it the cheapest, it was also more than half-off! (It said $22, but it was actually $10)

But when I got back it worked fine, and I was able to do my quiz.

We're doing biology in Psych and I don't get it at all. It's an open-book test, though, so what I did was, I went through the chapter and wrote a definition for each bolded word, then went into it with my little quick-access research sheets handy.

It half-worked. I got 70% Better than you should for a subject you don't understand at all.

I think I bombed a math quiz last Friday, though. It was the first really humbling moment for me in college so far.

I accidentally did a project ahead of schedule. Last Friday I handed in a paper that's due next Wednesday. I got my dates mixed up, somehow. Now I feel like such an apple-polisher.