Daily Blog + Error Rage

Today I continued work on the Polygon MAYA tutorial. I made some progress, but I've run into a snag. The step I'm at in the tutorial involves using the select border edge tool to extrude edges of the mesh for the helmet. I performed the first extrusion fine, but the problem happened with the border edges shown in the picture below:

MAYA will not let me select that entire border edge for some odd reason. Every time I click on the topmost part of that edge MAYA gives me:

when it is obviously a border edge. Hopefully, MAYA will stop being a jerk next time and let me select that particular edge