#unfortunate problems

I'm going to tell you four stories right now. They're pretty funny stories, and taken as pieces of a puzzle can perhaps tell you a larger, less funny story.

Do any of you use Snaplinks? It's this browser extension that lets you right-click and drag to draw a box on the screen. Every link in that box is opened in a new tab when you release the right mouse button. I use it to open new tabs in one click, instead of right clicking and then navigating the dropdown every time. (Darn thing can never decide where it wants to pop up relative to the pointer so I can't rely on muscle memory. S'a bit faster for me.)

I'm working on a homework for my operating systems class. The homeworks are pretty involved, and there's a ton of resources on the class homepage. Assignment specifications and data files, lecture slides, and in-class examples are listed linearly as download links, organized with headers. It's not difficult to navigate, but there's a fair bit of scrolling.

My hand keeps betraying me. It tries to tab over to Tumblr and Gmail as a reflex action, even when my mind is focused on NOT DOING THAT. After a particularly egregious spontaneous email check, I decided to stifle the remix by using one arm to physically drag the mouse-holding arm around to where I wanted it to go. The idea was, it'd confuse the reflex and prevent my hand from distracting me.

I am not left-handed.