I smoke a cigarette in today’s honor.
So I have acquired been gifted several rather unbelievable things in the past couple of days…
Firstly, an iPhone, which I’ve been dying for; it’s cooler than I ever could have imagined and even though it means canceling my contract with T-Mobile and going over to Cingular (again, even after the incident of being sent to collections for $0.77), is pretty much the best phone ever in the world. I mean Liz and I have been enthralled by the satellite maps (we each found sattelite pictures of our houses on the phone!) and I could sit and play with the touch screen for hours on end. It’s really only the second iPhone I’ve ever seen up close (my good friend Mel has one, but she works for Apple so, duh.) Yeah, totally unexpected gift, but I’m certainly not complaining.
Also in the gifts department, a brand new iMac with a ginormous screen so huge it’s actually bigger than my TV and when it’s hooked up to my rockin’ stereo system it’s basicallly bedroom surround sound. It’s great, I got it expressly for the purpose of being able to run my data sets for my job, but it can do so much more!
I run STATA and SPSS (if you don’t know what those are, consider yourself lucky), sometimes both at a time, plus a massively huge Excel data set file, and hundreds of PDF documents with voting data in them~ my poor little laptop is wonderful but she can’t handle all that at once and the screen is too small so I have to keep switching between one and the other. My new iMac though can have all those programs/windows open with room to have them up at the same time, AND it can do this with STATA and SPSS running regressions in the background! Whoo!!! So exciting.
Er, and yeah, I may have also gotten the Adobe Design Premium Creative Suite CS3 upgrade. Which means I kind of rule the world.
It’s true, I’m awesome.
