Dan = Winner, Mouse = Loser (and back out into the frigid streets)...

So, today I worked on memorizing Anthelmintics and have now finished about 1/4 of my notecard stack (and that's just for pharmacology). I have yet to begin studying pathology, but hopefully that will all come to me during the exam. I put together all of the images from our lectures and will study those in hopes that they will pick pictures that we have already seen in lecture.

So around 1.30pm, I was getting my shoes on while I sat at the edge of my bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement on the chair in front of me. When I looked up, there was a little mouse, no more than 2 inches long (he was a fat little mouse though), and it was sniffing the blanket on the back of the chair. When I moved, he jumped down and crawled into my jacket. I grabbed a metal bar and hit my jacket and he hopped out and under the bed he went! Ahhh! So I removed everything from under the bed, put the big chair on top of my bed so it couldn't crawl under that and took everything off my floor so I could see where it was. I could see everywhere he went and he was so quick the little bugger! I finally trapped him in a corner. In a frenzied panic, the mouse shot out from behind my backpack and slammed into the glass shelf that I had propped up to trap him. I think he was very confused at what he hit. He was running so fast before he slammed into the glass shelf that I thought he had gotten away, but then I saw that he had stopped at the glass. As I reached over to grab the garbage can to trap him, he shot out between the pillow and the glass shelf! Doh! I was so angry because it took me a while to corner it. Then it snuck out under my room door into the hallway of the flat.

So, I put a blanket against the crack of the door and left to go pick up a weather strip for the door so these little mice can no longer sneak into my room. I decided not to get a weather strip after I spoke with the landlord, as she has one that can be slipped under the door instead of me screwing a new weather strip on. So, I got back about an hour ago. I have been sitting here working on notes and about 15 minutes ago, I noticed the mouse was back in my room! How did that happen? This time, I learned. I blocked his little escape route and repeated the same thing as before. He stopped by the desk chair behind a shoe. I grabbed the garbage can and shoved it against the wall along with the shoe (and hopefully the mouse). My idea was that the mouse would get so scared if I moved fast enough, that it would just run forward into the trash bin. Low and behold, my plan worked because inside the trash can was the little mouse trying to get out. Ha! Success! So I walked outside and let the mouse go into the street. So it will have to go find somewhere else to live. So, now that the mouse is back out on the streets, I'm going to continue studying. Hopefully that was the only one in the flat... It's getting very cold outside now (28 degrees yesterday) so I'm thinking that more of these blasted mice will try and get into the flat...