It's About Protection

Last night, my friends and I went to Princeton to see a seminary production of The Vagina Monologues. This is serendipitous/coincidental/ironic because Jewels recently introduced me to a program for the iPhone that turns the touch screen into an animated vagina which users than fondle until it gets off. I will be writing more about this once I do some research; you see, this post is about protection.

New Jersey really is a foreign place to me. I love traveling and a good adventure, but the NJT and me are not BFF. After leaving work at 5 pm, I finally arrived at the McKay Student Center at 7:59 pm just before the angry vaginas and raucous feminist priestesses took the stage. (Now, this is not a review of the show, but as a side note, it was pretty awesome.)

The real tragedy occurred at approximately 10:27 pm outside of the WaWa near the Dinky Train Station at Princeton. My sister in Indiana sent me a text that said, "We just got new phones and we have text messaging now! Thought u should know!"

My friends were all very amused at her excitement over a mobile trend that was "so five years ago" and wanted to see this message. In passing iPhone to them, it happened. A quick slip, a lot of over dramatic yelling, a dive to cushion it against the nasty puked-on (I'm sure) pavement of the WaWa and CRASH (well, it was probably more just a light scatter)-- iPhone hit the pavement and now has a dent in it.

I realize I've never named my iPhone. Hence the poll.

This brought up a discussion of iPhone protection. There are all kinds of cases out there for the iPhone and I chose to purchase this one from Waterfield Designs in green. It holds the phone, isn't too bulky, and the silky insides clean the grime off the phone in between uses. But, when the phone is out of its nest, it is raw and unprotected. Hence, there is now a dent in it.

It's hard to find the best case though when no one (read: no celebrity) is carrying the same case around. The phone was trendy enough, but who out there is brave enough to lead the world in telling us what case to buy?