Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

- I did take the plunge and buy the Nexus! I'll worry about selling my Amazon gift cards to someone and getting the birthday money I never got from Dad later. I deserve to have a decent phone. Especially as I'm going to move in with Mom in a couple of weeks.

- Tried to order the sim card from T-Mobile so it could get here around the same time, but I had a ton of problems and had to go to the help chat; couldn't type in the box on the help chat, had to phone; the downstairs land line's battery was empty so I used my phone and reception was so bad I had to apologize and hang up. I will go to the mall the night I get the phone to buy a sim card in person.

- I'm stupidly tense about it all coming together before I have to give my badge back in so I can get that discount. But TBH 100 minutes for $30 is probably a decent deal for me, even though unlimited for $35 would obviously be better. Why do I impose these restrictions on myself?

- Called the Dept. of Civil Service, left a voicemail about my faxed transcript. It's probably going to take them a few days, hopefully it will be all straightened out by then.

- I think the place Melissa took my car for an estimate way padded it out. I finally looked at it closely, and there's a LOT that isn't directly related to taking a dent out of the panel - glass, lights, etc. WTF? It looked like they added about ten hours of work onto it. I still may take it to small claims court (there's got to be a chance that a judge would rule that they need to pay at least 75%, it's not a straightforward "two people backing into each other" case), but I want to get another estimate when Dad takes it to deal with the check engine light FOR THE THIRD TIME THIS WINTER and see how much it is.

- This bodice is going to be finished in Lake George because I spent all evening screwing around with T-Mobile.

So I did do some sewing today. I cut out a section on one side of the skirt and have sewn one seam and pinned the other. EXHAUSTING. I haven't heard from the temp agency so I guess I'm not going in tomorrow, so I will HOPEFULLY get the rest of this step done. Once I've got the first gore put in the second should be faster, right? (No.)

Yesterday I was looking at the VirginMobile website, because I've wanted a smartphone for ages and ages, and I figured I'd get a sense of how much they cost and budget for when I could get one. And it turned out that they have a $60 phone! ($80, but with $20 off.) Their smartphone plans all include unlimited texting and data, and for $35 you get 300 minutes of talk, which is more than enough for me. So I walked down to RadioShack and got me one. And now everything is awesome. I get a lot of anxiety at times over not being able to check email - if I'm meeting someone and I'm worried they've sent me a later message about where/when we're meeting, stuff like that. It sounds stupid, but this makes me happy, so eh.

Started reading this Rumbelle fic and um I sent the author a PM after the first chapter about some costuming/date issues that didn't make sense to me but apart from that? Much enjoyment. I mean, half the work is done in that any Rumbelle fic is a BatB story, which I tend to love on principle, and setting it in 1857 with decent writing also goes a long way.