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--and now I have an iPhone. Which I discovered when I found out my old phone had been shut off, when I tried to make a call after class this afternoon. SO. iPhone! What do I do with this? I never planned on getting one, so all I can think to use it for (besides...calling people) is getting maps and directions. Also this will be the first time I've had a phone advanced enough to have an actual ringtone; I've spent the last ten years just listening to a generic fakey MIDI ringing noise. Now I have to actually CHOOSE something.

I am NOT going to get any games, primarily because I will end up playing them for hours and hours, and also because I can already tell I'm going to have a ridiculous amount of trouble remembering to keep this thing charged and I don't want to encourage myself to use up the battery more than necessary.

ALSO, I just realized when itunes prompted me, I have to name it. My naming scheme for my hard drive devices--ATLA characters--is pretty near its limits. I've already got Aang(main desktop), Katara(netbook), Sokka(portable hard drive), Toph(external 1), Zuko(external 2), Iroh(external 3, used for backups), Appa(ipod), and Momo(flash drive). The phone's going to be Azula, which is probably tempting fate--I actually have had more trouble with the Zuko drive than any of the others; it's currently on its third incarnation--but that's better than departing from the theme. (All the devices have reasons for their names, too. Which I will not go into at length, but I assure you I've considered characterization and narrative function very carefully. Also color.)

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You can put an ebook reader on it, can't you? I downloaded, like, all the fanfic onto my smartphone.

OH MAN, that is so what I don't need. Except I desperately need it. My chances of graduating don't need it though. ...I'm so going to do this anyway.

get that newfangled translation app! because that's so cool!!

tell me more! what does it do? (well, "translate," presumably, but...what?)

Google released a translation app a few years ago and the latest update has a conversation feature -- speech! translated!

THAT IS SO COOL. I love living in the future.

Okay, my favourite apps, not including games:

Yoga Relax: It has pretty silhouettes of yoga poses, and you can either do their default session, or program your own custom one.

Sleep Cycle: best app ever. You plug it in, set a wake up time, put it face down on the bed next to your pillow, and it tracks your sleep. It can tell when you wake up and when you're in deep sleep, and it gives you a graph. And some time between your designated wake up time or half an hour earlier, it will wake you up at the point you're closest to awake anyway, so it's not such a jolt.

Hello Cruel World: Kate Bornstein's suicide prevention book in app form. It's a comforting thing to have around, and the pictures are pretty, but the app itself is a little clunky.

Convert: a very good unit of measurement converter.

Road Trip: tracks your fuel costs and mileage.

the yoga one sounds nice! The sleep one sounds amazing, but idk if I could really use it, since most days I don't get a choice about when I get up.

I name all my devices after X-Men characters, which is a pretty much infinite naming scheme! I am currently typing on Polaris.

Stanza is a great e-reader app. QuickReader is very cool because it's a decent e-reader app and also has reading speed settings. Instapaper is amazingly good for reading web things - I have hundreds of stories in it. And Hipstamatic is so much fun as a photograph app.

Huh, surprisingly most of my apps are on my ipad now. I use the iphone for mail, the web, ebooks and Babo Crash, a ridiculously fun bejewelled app.