Our contract with USCell winds up this month, so I was free to choose a different carrier and, gasp! Get a new phone!  I’ve had a Nokia 5165 for two years, and it now basically only works when plugged in, so it just stays in the car.  At my appointment today, I tried to see if they could use email to contact me because I really don’t have a phone to be reached at in the lab . . .  and they won’t.  Fuck. (Seriously, man, if I just got all my little confirmation calls as email instead, life would be somuch easier.)  I left the OB with a system of "call before you come in, in case the doc is delievering," and a backup of "we’ll call your husband and he can email you."  He at least has an extension and voice mail, but he’s at his desk maybe only 40 percent of the time, and in the building only 60 percent, so it was a big pain in the ass, and I decided to just sign up with T-Mobile and be done with it.

I ended up with a Motoral V330, which had the two main features I wanted — it folds, and has a camera. I’ve been lusting after camera phones since they were invented, and can think of all kinds of times I wish I’d had one.  Like, for instance, the time we were moving in here and there were two 10 year old-ish boys standing on the side of the road in inflated sumo costumes looking bored. Or the time the people down the street were throwing out mannequin legs, and they were sticking out of the trash can like an inverted Rockette move. Or when I was trying on wedding dresses, and calling my mom from Portland and having her look up different models online to see what they were like. I could go on and on, but I’m really stoked to have a folding cameraphone now. Yay!

ETA:  I’m sure someone’s going to have some sort of t-mobile horror story, but you have to understand that up here,  we can’t get Verizon (which seems like the most revered) and I’m just stoked that I had a third option after USCell and Unicel.  Plus, t-mobile has the perfect plan for me, 30 bucks a month, 300 minutes and unlimited weekends.  The coverage I need is basically here, and I-95, and they have that covered, so woo-hoo, no more way too expenisve USCell bill for services we don’t even USE.