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Tumi 'Voyageur Q-Tote®' Nylon Tote purple | CorporettePurple! Nylon! With a sleeve to go on a rolling suitcase! This Tumi tote is calling my name. It's 14″ x 11.5″ x 7″, which makes it kind of huge, but it doesn't look unwieldy at all. I particularly love the flat bottom with feet. Love! It's $245 at Nordstrom (also in black, “fossil,” and slate gray). Tumi ‘Voyageur Q-Tote®' Nylon Tote Here's a lower-priced option. (L-4)

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  1. TJ: Do you prefer to take calls while walking around or sitting at your desk? If you walk around – where do you walk?

    1. My preference is to head outside if I can at all swing it and if not, I pace in my office. (cell calls obvi)

    2. I stand for at least part of the call and sometimes pace in my office. If I have to take notes, that doesn’t work. At home, I do chores while on the phone.

  2. I can’t see paying that much for a nylon tote. It looks like a very nice nylon tote, but it’s still a nylon tote.

    1. For most nylon totes, I’d agree. But after using my Tumi nylon tote for 11 years on a daily basis (first through law school and now as my work bag and travel bag), I think the price was well worth it. Most of my leather bags have not held up nearly as well.

      1. Agreed. I have several pieces of luggage from Tumi and they look great, are well designed, and a joy to use. I would much rather pay $245 for a well designed nylon bag that will wear like iron than a leather bag that will not hold up as well.

    2. A coworker has this tote and it looks very expensive in person. Leather totes are nice, but mine is pretty heavy. Sometime I wish I had gone for a nylon one.

    3. I’ve been eyeing this tote for a while, but couldn’t pull the trigger for the same reason. It’s nylon! Another attorney suggested it after we both complained about our Rebecca Minkoff totes not holding up as well or as long as we had wished.

      But your 11 year review has me considering again, @Lazy Lawyer…

      1. The handles on my Rebecca Minkoff tote started wearing down within the first week of (gentle) use! I couldn’t believe it. Luckily, Nordstrom gave me full refund on mine – I think it’s a design problem – the leather used is paper thin and prone to wearing.

    4. Agreed. I bought a somewhat similar one from Eagle Creek for international travel and it was about $45.

    5. I have it in black. Worth every single penny. Now several years old, still looks brand new, holds everything, is lightweight, and has even made it through the washing machine and dryer a few times. It’s love.

    6. I bought this in a black floral on sale about a month ago. I love everything about it–it’s really well made, looks expensive (took the lame TUMI keychain thing off though!), has great pockets. The only thing I’m sad about is that my suitcase has a bit of a wider handle and this bag will not fit on it (which was part of the reason I bought it). Love it otherwise though.

  3. I’m getting ready to start a job as an English professor, and I thought a discussion on academic fashion might be fun for the group. I’m in my early 30’s, I work in a relatively conservative subfield, but my methodology (if not exactly cutting edge) is more on the “cool” side. I’m planning to wear a mix of pencil skirts, silky blouses, trouser cut pants (those work best for my figure), suit separates, some tweedy stuff, and interesting scarves and shoes. What would you add or subtract from the list? Are there specific brands I should consider? What should I be thinking about in terms of conveying authority, intellect, etc.?

    1. That seems like a bit much. I went to one of the best universities in my country and a lot of the professors just wore jeans and nice shirts. The only professor who I can remember wearing suits was my Methodology professor funnily enough

      1. Good point. I may be over-correcting from my grad student wardrobe. I’m only concerned that casual clothes will read as young, and I’ll already be the youngest person in the department.

        1. Could you mix it up a little bit more casual? For instance, tee-shirts with pencil skirt, dressier blouse with jeans? I agree you want to be a step nicer than most of the students, and things that are well tailored will help – but suits might be too far.

          Plus – ironing and dry cleaning. Will you do that? I’m guessing you didn’t in grad school. If not, don’t buy items that require it – you’ll wear them once and then ignore them.

          1. Mixing in casual pieces is a great suggestion – thanks.

            I did wear dry clean only items on occasion in grad school, mostly for conferences. I’ll plan to save the more formal stuff for occasions like those.

    2. This sounds extraordinarily fancy for academia. My English profs wore like peasant blouses and jeans and interesting textiles with weird draping.

    3. Think about the classrooms you will be teaching in and where you will sit/stand. Will you be lecturing at the front of a big room, or sitting in a group? I remember some of my profs used to sit on or lean against at the edge of a desk at the front of the room when we were having small group discussions – I don’t see sitting on top of a desk like that working well in a pencil skirt. Just something to think about.

      Also think about your campus and where you will be teaching vs where your office is. Will you have to trek across campus in slush and snow? Up several flights of stairs? That might influence your shoe choice, and whether you will want pants or skirts with boots in winter.

      Also – layers – temperature control in some academic buildings is terrible and you might be sweltering in your office but teaching in a freezing cold room or vice versa.

      What do the other profs in your department or similar departments wear? Are they more business to business casual like you are describing, or are they more scruffy jeans and tee shirts types or hippie peasant skirts and Birkenstocks type? What about the students? Is it a preppy school where students dress up, or is it more of a place where most of the students wear jeans, if they even bother to change out of pj or yoga pants?

    4. Can’t speak to English profs (I avoided those classes), but I think that sounds exactly like what the profs wore in my undergrad business school classes. The trend there was definitely toward business casual for the women and often full business (suits or blazers) for the men.

      1. That was my experience in undergrad too. A few professors (mostly Math/Science if I remember) veered into the very casual jeans range, but most of my professors erred on the side of business casual. At least at my school blazers and pencil skirts would not be uncommon. I don’t think most women would wear full suits but certainly many men did.

        1. Business professors wear exactly this, most libral arts professors do not. I just graduated and most of my professors were in some sort of non-jean pant,and a non t-shirt shirt. So like one step up from weekend wear. I had some professors who wore shirts with holes and multi-pocketed shorts. I would wear wrap dresses

    5. I get where you’re coming from, but I think the details of your sub-field and methodologies will be lost on undergraduates. I’d concentrate on portraying authority: trousers (not jeans) and blouses (not t-shirts) sound great for that. Splurge on shoes! You’ll be on your feet quite a bit as a lecturer. Congratulations on your new job!

      1. +1. Think more about region and the individual character of the university. Sub-field and method are more relevant for dressing for academic conferences. If you are worried about authority (I was too when I started out!), business casual is usually fine. My rules at a pretty casual university are: (1) no jeans and (2) comfy shoes for 2+ hrs of standing at a time.

    6. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an academic in the humanities as well as an author. She wrote an article for Elle about smart women who love fashion that is a good read.

      I work at a university, and many young professors don’t want to be mistaken for students, so it make sense to curate your work wardrobe with some gravitas. Think on what the hiring committee wore during the interview and selection process, and you have a baseline. There is a lot of room for personal expression, so figure out what feels good for standing in front of a lecture hall for class, walking around a campus, etc. and build around that. It’s a balance between knowing the office culture and building your own brand. I’m professional staff in upper administration so I’m more formal with my clothes, but soften it when meeting with students or presenting to faculty.

      1. One of the young college professors who was hired while I was in college talked about how he had so many suits that he never wore because all the professors dressed up for the interviews/presentations, but no one really dressed up day-to-day.

    7. The scarves will be great with varying temperatures, keep a pashmina and a neutral cardigan in your office. Layers are your friend because in a day there will be immense temperature fluctuations from the pre-convocation cooling before the x,000 warm bodies arrive for the event to the glass-enclosed south-facing office that rarely makes it below 80 degrees with the shades drawn.

      I use the Barking Dog Shoe blog to help me find comfortable shoes and low heels because I have a foot issue. There are thousands of fashionable, comfortable shoes, and for the 2-3000 employees on a campus and I’ve only seen maybe five that wear Birkenstock. Aravon is my brand for work shoes (New balance makes them) I need to stretch Rockports, and I’m blanking on other comfortable brands that ramp up for worklife without being crocs (LOVE seeing them on health professionals)

    8. Departments can vary a lot in their norms for this, so I would consider waiting until you’re on campus to purchase most of your wardrobe. I am a professor in a professional school and it’s common to see both male and female professors in suits on teaching days, especially at the beginning of the semester. I typically wear suit or dress/blazer on teaching days and for conferences and wear more business casual/trendy pieces on non-teaching days, similar to your ideas of what to buy. However, even if I were in a less formal department I would never teach in casual clothes-students often comment on how female professors are dressed in evaluations and it’s better for those comments to be positive. They seem to see the math professor who has ten of the same shirt and jeans and wears the same every day as quirky if male, but gross if female.

    9. This sounds right on point to me. I’d start out slightly more formal and then you can always take it down a notch if it doesn’t feel right to you. Generally speaking though, I agree that it’s helpful as a young, female professor to present yourself in a way that is slightly more formal.

    10. This would work at my university where the dress ranges from jeans to suits but tends toward business causal. I skew more formal and think it helped my career as I’m in administration now.

      I second the recommendation to splurge on good shoes. A faculty member on this site recommended AGL shoes (specific style below) and I agree they are well worth the price. Heels that are more substantial, such as block heels, work well for lots of walking and standing.

      Congratulations on your job and best wishes for a wonderful academic year!!!

      http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/agl-attilio-giusti-leombruni-pyramid-stud-pointy-toe-pump-women/3705604?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&contextualcategoryid=2375500&fashionColor=Black+Nappa&resultback=2100

    11. As I recall, a female professor’s hair always said more to me about authority/polish than her outfit did, since outfits were really all over the map at my university. Go get a new hairstyle that is polished, sophisticated, and easy to manage if that doesn’t already describe your hair. (I am making no statement about straight/curly/natural/relaxed/long/short/etc. – just something that looks sophisticated for you and is easy for you to manage.)

      1. The main thing is good shoes. Junior faculty tend to get the dud class blocks….lecture and then 3 seminars in a row I’m looking at you…..so all my outfits were planned around the shoes that held up for 5 hours on my feet…

    12. Congrats on the job! It’s a shame there isn’t a great style blog for women in academia (Academichic, I miss you!) as it is quite a different subculture. It’s summer session here so most of my colleagues have decamped but it’s a pretty mixed bag between what you are describing and slightly hippy dippy styles. Sometimes I want to march people into a Hobbs or Jigsaw and buy them new jackets.

    1. I use that bag as my daily work bag and I love it. Big enough to carry my lunch and some files but not huge. Great pockets and smart design.

    3. Baggillini bags wear like iron and last a long time – I have four plus a wallet on a strap.

    1. OMG I love that dress and I might buy it. Not sure how good the color is for me, but I LOVE IT!

      Ahem, anyway, onto your question…what about a long strand of pearls with the classic double loop? Or, no necklace with big earrings and a bold cuff. Like big diamond/rhinestone studs and a big, plain metal cuff.

    2. I think that dress would look really cute with navy or dark blue velvet shoes, but I guess those will not be in season for the wedding. Maybe navy satin shoes. I’d also say no necklace, and statement earrings. Such a cute dress!

  6. I’m travelling to Turkey in the fall- just booked my flights. Any suggestions? Places to stay, things to do? Tips for being a solo woman in turkey?

    1. Yay! I was not abel to post for a while b/c I slipped on some thing gross in Macy’s vestibule and my iphone broke so I got a new one. FOOEY b/c I did NOT have insurance from Verizon.

      Anyway, for the OP, I would be very carful goeing to Turkey alone as a woman. You will get alot of male attention dad says, especialy as an American but unless you want that, stay in public places where there will be other peeople. He also says that men will want to have sex with you and want you to marry them to get a green card, so watch out for that also. But if you want the male attention have a great trip!

    2. My older kids are travelling there in October.

      Sauna/spa – they are travelling as a couple, which limits their options.

      Coffee – Okkali Kahve if you are in Istanbul?

      Kebab at Aloran Cafe if you are near the Blue Mosque.

      Go to the Grand Bazaar and find something that you are lukewarm on purchasing and walk away from the “final” offer and see what happens…

      PBS has a documentary on the Hagia /Aya Sophia that might give you ideas, too.

      If you are using taxis, insist that they turn over the meter before you commit to the ride, or get another cab if the driver refuses –

    3. I was in Instanbul in March with a group of friends, mostly women. Things we enjoyed:

      – Hagia Sophia
      – Blue Mosque
      – Basilica Cistern
      – Bosphorus Tour
      – fresh squeezed pomegranate juice at any place we could get it (which is everywhere)

      I did not enjoy the Grand Bazaar or the Spice Bazaar. It seemed like every single shop sold the exact same tsotchke crap and were SO AGGRESSIVE about getting you to buy it. No thank you. Agreed with TOS on the cab – we got royally ripped off.

      The absolute best thing we did was go to the hamam. We still talk about how amazing it was all. the. time.

    5. Go visit a couple of cities outside Istanbul! We did Ephesus and Cappadocia and those were our favorite parts of our Turkey trip. Both are very easy and short flights from Istanbul. You can do Ephesus in one day (literally fly in and out the same day) since it’s really one old ruins site you’ll want to visit, but the ruins are stunning. Cappadocia is worth a few days – book a hot air balloon ride!

  7. How much money do you spend on charitable donations every year (dollar value, or percentage of income), and how do you pick your charities? How do you decide how much to give? Any favorites?

    1. (1) My donation level varies based on my income and expenses, so I can’t give you a set percentage or dollar amount. So far this year over $500, but last year, under $100.
      (2) I pick my charities based on my personal passions/interests (animals, poverty relief, reentry programs, etc.) and then do a little bit of digging around to see if they are legit enough for me to feel comfortable giving.
      (3) I give what I can. Sometimes it’s $15, sometimes it’s $300. Just depends on what extra cash I have laying around that month or if there is a specific program/person/animal that speaks to me.
      (4) I donate to Skid Row Stories, The Compassion Project (tiny org that helps homeless folks and their animals in CA), and a handful of local ones that are animal related. I also donate my time to a halfway house for women, but that’s not what you are asking about!

    2. We gave about 5% this past year, but that will be dropping to a little over 3%. We have recurring donations for NPR and a non-profit that a friend works at, but we switch up the rest every month – sometimes it’s a friend’s charity walk, or my niece’s jump rope challenge for the American Heart Association, or the local Humane Society. I don’t usually spend a lot of time looking at how charities spend their money, but I gave to March of Dimes after a friend lost her baby, and I will never donate there again. Contact from them bordered on harassment even after I requested to be removed from mailing lists. They seemed to waste money on address labels and personalized notepads, and I kept getting the dimes in the mail asking to send it back along with more money. No. I’m keeping your dime. Leave me alone. So after a couple years of giving to random charities, we usually cycle through the ones we’ve already given to in order to decrease how many mailing lists we’re on.

    3. We usually aim for around $25,000 per year, or about 10% of (after-tax) income. So far we’re a bit less than halfway at $9,000 but we will make it up around Christmas time.
      We choose most of our charities based on our local area. Primarily to our church and homeless shelters nearby. Our cat’s youtube revenues go to a local no-kill cat shelter. And I save some room in the budget to give $100 here or there to friends who are fundraising.
      When I’m looking for new charities, I usually screen them through charity intelligence, a non-profit group in Canada which assesses organizations for “efficient” use of funds, and other metrics. I try to make sure that our money is being used responsibly!

      1. I am loving the phrase “our cat’s youtube revenues.” I need to put my dog to work!

        I donate about 3% of my after-tax income. I donate to our local food bank (not food pantry, but the actual food bank that serves 11 counties in my state ) – I used to work there and know that they are amazing stewards of donations. I also know that $$ goes way farther than donating food!

        I also donate to the library, to the animal shelter where I got my dog, local NPR station, and a volunteer program for recent grads that I did myself after college (similar to Americorps).

        All of those are monthly contributions – easier for the charity, easier for me – monthly donations are awesome. I also give on an ad hoc basis to other things, such as an indiegogo project my friend created funding a toolkit to prevent child abuse in international charities.

        1. Oh it was seriously crazy for a while. We put a video on youtube to show my mom, and we ended up earning about $20,000 from it! She was a pretty rich kitty. I felt silly about keeping the money at first, so we made a commitment to donate it all. Then the cheques started getting bigger and bigger!! Then smaller and smaller…. Views have slowed down now and she rarely gets paid. But we still love her :)

          1. 1) Please link to the video

            2) How do you get paid from a video on youtube? Does youtube just pay you if it goes viral? I thought you would have to put up your own ads on your page or something like via google.

          5. In terms of how the ads work – somehow her video went “viral” and starting attracting views outside of our friends/family. Definitely nothing that we did to encourage it.
            Once it hit around 100,000 youtube contacted us and gave us the option of applying for the ad program. Basically the application is a review to ensure no copyright infringement. Once it passed the review, youtube added the ads. I think just on the side at first, then the little banner within the video later on (or vice versa). We don’t have any control over which ads are posted. (this was just for the first video. Adding ads to subsequent videos was much quicker and easier).
            The revenue per ad is based on a formula which is not clear. We get x% of the ad revenues, or y% if the viewer clicks the ad. I know y > x but the percentages aren’t clear. I do know that once our revenues reach $100, we get paid.

          6. I’m cracking up. That is so clearly just a random video you took and it got over 25 million hits! That is insane and my new favorite story. YouTube, making cats and Justin Bieber famous since 2005.

            I have a couple funny videos of my pets I might just move over to you tube. :)

          8. Yes, a totally random video! it makes no sense to me either! We somehow managed to accidentally hit the peak of the internet cat video craze :) Our video was even tweeted by Ed Sheeran at one point, though neither my husband or I (or our cat) had heard of him at the time, lol.

            Anonymous – thanks, we love her too!

    4. Between 5-7% of after-tax income (depending on bonuses). Our primary giving is to an organization that my husband is on the board of and has been for many years. Throughout the year though we give to our alma maters and legal aid (both lawyers). And then I have a policy of giving at least a minimum amount when asked for pretty much any health-issue based organization that someone is raising money for (i.e., cancer and MS walks and rides). I’d say that usually adds up to $300-500 a year or so.

    5. 1. I donate 3-5% of our household take home pay each year.
      2. Charities are chosen based on ease of donation and causes we’re passionate about.
      3. I either give what is asked of me or to “complete” an objective. So if a friend is fundraising and wants to raise ‘x’ amount of dollars, I’ll sometimes donate the rest of what it takes to get them there.
      4. I donate to church, a friend’s not-for-profit that has very direct, local impact, a local program that puts food for the weekend directly in the hands of the kids that eat it, and my local United Way. There’s lots of opinions on the United Way giving, but it’s extremely easy to donate through the regular paycheck, so I do it for convenience.

    6. How does everyone figure out after tax income? Our charitable giving is really low, but I don’t know what % it is if you go by after-tax.

      1. Everything goes in a spreadsheet for me. Money in (our after-tax or take-home pay) and money out, in lots of categories. So it’s easy for me to just add up the columns for each month.

      2. I just total up our paychecks (each bi-monthly) and take it times 24. I know there’s an adjustment for actual tax purposes, but I do my rough math based on what actually seem to take home.

    7. I do not donate much but this year I am planning to pay the college tuition for the eldest daughter of my favorite teacher from high school. I also take lessons from a local self-supporting musician, with the specific intent of being a sort of benefactor for him (I know they would not simply allow me to donate or pay their rent, etc.).

      I’d rather “give” to people I know who are furthering causes that I believe in through their own livelihoods (eg education, music, arts).

      1. I do something similar. We donate about 10k each year, most of which goes to support the education of under privileged girls in my home country in South Asia. Part of it goes to support the education of my domestic helps’ daughters in their countries.

    8. I do $500 a year and usually just donate to friends/family who are raising money for something. (all very worthy causes) I have it sitting in a separate account and when I get a request, I usually drain the account. (it gets added to each paycheck).

    9. My charitable donations go to a combination of causes I’m passionate about and organizations where a substantial donation will offer me good business/networking opportunities. For that reason, I tend to give larger amounts to fewer organizations. For example, I donate to a local program for special needs kids and to the local park conservancy – neither of those does much for me from a business perspective, but I love the park and use it daily, and I volunteer in the kids program weekly and know it makes an amazing difference in their lives. At the same time, I donate to my law school and undergrad alumni organizations and to arts organizations in my city at a level that gets me invite to participate in things that expose me to senior people in my field and city business leaders.

      I wouldn’t donate to any place that I didn’t think was reputable and a good steward of funds, but I am strategic about my donation choices.

    10. 10% of household take-home pay right now, because I am in school and have loans. Before I was in school and after I graduate, it will be 10% of household gross income.

      60% of total giving goes to our church (much of which then gets redistributed to the local efforts our church supports, struggling members of the congregation, and some international aid).

      The other 40% of total giving is distributed as follows:
      – 10% – artistic and civic organizations (NPR etc. – a total of 3 organizations)
      – 10% – international organizations focusing on sustainable agriculture and education and medical care for women (a total of 3 organizations)
      – 10% – domestic organizations focusing on housing and healthcare for women and LGBT people (a total of 3 organizations)
      – 10% – random things friends and family are raising money for, or just considerably-more-generous-than-usual gifts to people I know are struggling financially.

    11. I do about 10% of take-home pay, spread among the following:

      Local arts organization
      Sponsor a child (actually she’s a college student now) in Cambodia (traveled there a few years ago and left my heart behind)
      Local social service agency
      Rotary Foundation
      Small local dance company
      Local public radio

      And I also set aside a couple hundred dollars per month to have on hand for those random worthy causes that pop up.

    12. Currently – not much, as I’m working on paying off some debt. Aspirationally, I would like to donate 10% of my income to a mix of not-actually-charitable pet projects (like my University), things my friends are doing (opening a school, for example) and legitimate impactful charity (mosquito nets in Africa.)

    13. We aim for 10% of gross pay to the church, plus a few other smaller gifts (total $1000-$2000) to organizations that have meaning to us.

      1. Are you Mormon? (This is a serious question. I don’t think I know non-Mormons who actually tithe the 10% all to church).

  8. Recs for a good face sunscreen that 1) waterproof – lasts quite a while with sweatiness and 2) good for sensitive skin and 3) not too oily?

    I LOVE my Neutrogena UltraSheer, but now supposedly it has a bunch of bad chemicals or something in it (according to EWG)? Potentially this is just scare-mongering, but I thought I would see if there are other recs out there. I’m very cautious on the sensitivity point too as I once bought a sunscreen while in Japan that made my face blow up.

    Kind of eyeing the Tartegard sunscreen, but not sure if the mineral stuff will irritate me.

    1. I like the Cetaphil SPF 50.

      I’ve never found any sunscreen that’s really waterproof though.

      1. Neutrogena really was quite decent at dealing with my sweat (bad chemicals aside). If you’re talking about non-face sunscreen, Bullfrog is the gold standard of waterproof. It feels like you coated yourself in WD40, but I can put it on in the morning and spend an entire day on a blazing hot beach without burning.

    2. Badger Balm! Natural, cruelty free, water resistant. Fabulous. I buy it at the local natural food store.

    4. My skin is super-sensitive and turns red from almost everything, but I’ve had good luck with Sun Bum SPF 30 face stick. It smells like banana taffy, which is a feature or a bug, depending on your perspective.

    5. If you’re worried about chemicals, use a physical sunscreen, not a chemical sunscreen. I love SkinCeuticals sunscreen–doesn’t make me breakout or look oily. I don’t know how it holds up under sweat–it’s been so long since I did physical activity outside during the day (thanks job).

    6. Speaking from personal experience, it turns out that I’m allergic to chemical based sunscreens where oxybenzone or methanone are the main ingredients. Basically, I can’t use a lot of sunscreens actually labeled “sensitive” because they still use a lot of strange chemicals. I can use physical sunblock where the main ingredients are either titanium oxide or zinc oxide which block UVA and UVB rays (SPF labeling for these rarely goes above 45 but that’s really not a problem), and doesn’t make me break out in hives. You might want to consider changing to physical sunblock lotions even though the formula is heavier, just a thought.

  9. Anyone else have a longchamp le pliage bag where the nylon corners (i.e., the corners at the bottom) have worn into small holes? I’m so disappointed and I’m wondering if it’s a problem with the color I chose (bilberry – dark purple) or if all of them have this problem.

    1. They will all do that eventually. You can take it into Longchamp (or mail it) and have them put leather caps on the corners if it’s a problem

    2. Yup, happened to mine too after about two years of wear. Somewhat unrelated, but I tossed an old Longchamp in the washing machine and hung dry and it came out great!

  10. I am going to contact SoFi to refinance my law school loans. I am not sure of the current status of their referral program, but I am happy to say someone here referred me if I am asked. Any takers?

    1. me! I just refinanced in May off of recs here and from coworkers and it was a great experience! Here’s my link: https://www.sofi.com/refer/5/30403 let me know if you have any questions. I found the process very easy and the customer service very accessible though.

      ETA: I think you get money from using my link too. hopefully!

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