It's Here!

I feel almost as though I've given birth. After thinking for a long time that it would never happen to me, after knowing for months that it would, after imagining what it might look like and what it would be like to have, my cell phone arrived today. I'm surprised at the affection I feel for it. I keep picking it up, looking it over, trying to figure it out. I know this is going to change my life forever, that I will never again be able to imagine not having it. I'm a little baffled by it, and afraid it's going to be noisy at inconvenient times and wake me up at night, but I'm sure others will have plenty of advice for dealing with it. And so I stare at this little thing, amazed that it's mine and that for the next year, I'll be carrying it wherever I go. I'm a little concerned about all the accessories I now have to bring when I travel, and the money it's going to cost me, but I imagine I'll rather like it on the whole, and will soon understand other people's devotion to their own. Just hope I don't break it.