UNRELIABLE

To make myself feel better, I just posted this on a review site for the Blackberry Pearl that I own:

"This morning I relied exclusively on my blackberry pearl alarm to wake me up and the this piece of crap did not work. Now I learned my lesson never to rely on this piece of garbage I call my blackberry again.
Summary: slow on internet, no memory (I only can save about 5 pictures in it), UNRELIABLE, it's so easy to accidentally press the stupid button that let's it voice initialize and then it takes forever to get it to stop."

I had volunteered for this program where professional artists go to a school where the kids write original short plays and we (the actors) read them and perform. I was asked to do this through contacts I made at an audition. Although I thought it sounded fun as well as understood how it could be beneficial to me (experience, rewarding, credit, networking, a chance to work with this reputable company), I was regretting (a little bit) agreeing to this because it was all the way out in Princeton, NJ. Princeton is an 1 and 15 mins. to get to by train from Penn Station, I live in Westchester, where I would have to take a 6:48am train from here to catch a 7:53 train to Princeton from Penn Station. I am not a morning person at all, and so, I was regretting the fact that I agreed to do it. However, I was all set to do it and make the best of it. I had to wake up at around 5:30-5:45am to fully get ready to catch the metro north train that would get me to the NJ transit train that would get me to Princeton in time for the car to pick me up and take me to the school.

I usually set both the regular alarm, as well as my blackberry alarm. Last night, after a long day of auditions and a friend's father's funeral, I was ready to try and get an early night sleep while my significant other watched TV outside (he has the week off from work and has been enjoying sleeping in everyday). "What time did you set the alarm for?" he asked me from out in the living room.

"I didn't set the regular alarm," I replied, "Just my blackberry."

I do not know why I did this, I just thought one would be enough, since having both of them go off is normally more then enough.

On my own, I woke up this morning at 7:30am, and in a panic realized there was no way I could make the 7:53 train from Penn at that time, that I had totally missed the train. I walked over to my piece of shit Blackberry Pearl and it was inititalizing. Is that why this stupid piece of crap did not go off?? After yelling at, I called my contact person for today. I told him the truth of why I couldn't make it today, and how this never happens to me (it doesn't - I am always little miss prompt and dependable). Lucky for me, he was very nice about it, and said he appreciated me telling him. I love when people are nice to me!

However, today, my blackberry and I are both rendered unreliable.