I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

I haven't wanted to jinx it by announcing, but last week I bit the bullet and went to T-Mobile (still my carrier of choice, say what you will) and picked out a Samsung Gravity Smart T589.

Note that a couple years ago I had made the same resolution about joining the 21st century, tried out the myTouch Slide, and thought in the store that it was going to be great -- but came home and found that I just hated it. I don't remember now what I hated so much about it: was it just getting used to the app-based interface? The fact that I hadn't put in the work to clean up my Google contacts and sync the numbers from my old phone, so it was a huge pain? The interface being all aggressively HI I AM SO EASY TO USE HERE LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT? Not sure. But trying to set it up and use it gave me absolute shpilkes, so I returned it after 10 days and ordered up another used Treo 680.

So this time, I figured (a) I might as well just suck it up and trial-buy whatever I picked out, because playing with the in-store model wasn't going to tell me enough about day-to-day usability, and (b) I don't need to find the absolute best possible Android phone, anything that was a tolerable replacement for the Treo would suffice, at least as a gateway drug stepping stone.

So, the Gravity Smart? So far I don't hate it, you guys. It's actually... kind of awesome.

Having sorted my data plan with T-Mobile, I think all I really need to round out my happiness with it is a rubberized case, which I didn't want to bother buying until I was sure I was keeping the thing. (I've always had a silicone skin case for the Treo. It reduces my constant low-level background anxiety of having the thing slip out of my hand to its death.) But it seems to be a keeper, so I ordered a case (and a spare/travel charger) last night.

Note: This also means I have at least two of those used Treos, reasonably functional, and a bunch of accessories: chargers, skin cases, etc. If anyone is interested in buying any of them, it'd save me putting them on eBay. Probably too late for me to get the pile organized to bring to Arisia, but let me know anyway, and we can negotiate a reasonable price off-journal.

The last two nights, I've had the luxury of being able to get into bed by midnightish and sleep relatively late (Sunday morning, until 10am; today, until about 8:30 since there's nothing requiring my presence at work before 10).

What happens? For the first and second time in a good two months, I wake up at 4-5am, promptly have a jolt of completely fruitless anxiety (Here's an email you should have sent before bed! Here's the phone* you should have bought! Here's something you didn't manage to finish at work on Friday! Hardly anyone's** signed up for Honorable Menschen auditions!) and lie there for AN HOUR AND A HALF in the middle of the night, simultaneously bolt-awake and so tired I'm ready to die.

UGH.

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And while I'm at it: Why did my body decide that the way to celebrate my 38th birthday was to erupt two ENORMOUS pimples on my chin? Is this some misguided attempt at "youthful"? Huh? HUH???