Well, as many of you know, or maybe know now, I bought an IPhone.  I didn't want to, but the guy pressured me into it.  I walked in wanting to buy something like a blackberry, but when I was about to get it, the guy comes out with, "Why don't you just get an IPhone?"  I stood there bewildered.  I am so technologically far behind the rest of the world, and always have been, it wasn't intil 2004 that I actually got a cell phone, much less know what the hell to do with an IPhone.  To his query, I responded, "I'm scared of them."  He asked me why was I scared of them to which I came back with, "You know, it's that whole 1984, Big Brother thing."  Now, get this, he responded with, "What happened in 1984?" OMG!!!!!!  He then recovered with some reference to a Shia Lebouf movie I haven't seen yet, and probally will wait till it comes on HBO.  I looked at him, dead in his eyes and wondered if he knew what my analogy was to, so, I probed deeper. "Wouldn't that be great to have a stipen of gin?"  He looked like he could have puked, that his one time going to 360 was all down the drain now that he knew you could get free gin.  But, needless to say, the conversation went on, 1984 untouchable.  He started rattling off all the features it has, GPS (of which i doubted he knew what the letters meant), Apps, World Clock, blah blah blah, and all for $200.  My mouth dropped.  What wanted to first come off my tounge was, "For $200 this thing better blow me, and swallow, for the next two years!"  But, knowing the converstation, I said, "Jeez, what else does it do, connect to your brain?"  He started to giggle, then answered a call from his Bluetooth.  In the end, his gift, or lack of gab, got me to buy the damn thing.  I drove home, looking at it ashamedly, already thinking about pawning it.  Oh, before I left, he handed me my phone and said, "Welcome to 2008."  I wanted to reply with, "Read a fucking book!"  But now I know that he could read books, on his IPhone!  So, there it sits, clutched in my hand like Golum's Precious, warm with artificial intelligence.  I fear though, that I'm going to really get addicted to this phone.  Already I've gotten ALL  of my Tori Amos songs on it, which makes me love it even more.  What can I do to stop myself from getting addicted?  I feel like I'm in the movie Pulse and my mom is going to walk in my room and i'm barnicled to the wall till I completely absorbed into the mainframe, or whatever that is.  Any ideas on how to NOT let this thing take over my brain?