I surrender to the forces of modernity

yes, today, I bought a Russian cell phone. I gave into all of the peer pressure and just got sick of "what!?! you don't have a cell phone!?!"

So now I am a proud owner of a very cute little phone, the simplest and cheapest I could find, and a customer of Megafon.

Do I know how to use my phone? Not really. I'm working on that.

BUT - you can send me text messages from the internet and I receive them for free.

Go to this website:

http://sms.megafonmoscow.ru/

Now, its all in Russian, so I have to talk you through it. The first part, there is a scrambled code that you have to read and type in (in numbers) to prevent spam computer program thingys from SMS-ing me.
Then it will give you a line for my number. 7-926 should already be entered in the area code part, and then fill in MY number: 1472576

Type the message and hit the button that looks like a send button, but is in Russian.
REMINDER - please sign your name! so I know who sent it - someone just sent me one, but I don't know who.

Hooray!

I would tell you to call me on it, but it would cost me $0.23 a minute, so don't.