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LOL you guys! I was reading through going, 'Yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes..." <g>

Julie The Addict

You know you´re addicted when...

your boyfriend, who wears glasses, proposes to you and you have to hold yourself not to grab his glasses and ask: Who's asking? Clark or Superman?

Just a few more before I go to bed.

• When you catch yourself almost looking up : jawdrop : in the thesarus because you're too stunned for words and you can't find the graemlins in WORD
• When after spending way too much time in Lois's head while writing your WIP, you go to do something else, trip on your way there and *actually* say "Good one, Lois, good on...ohmygod..I'm a retard!"
• When someone tells you something shocking and you try to say O-M-G, but it just doesn't sound right that way, so you stand there with your mouth hanging open

Sara (who probably shouldn't be allowed to post when she's this tired )

You know you're addicted when:

You print out so many stories that you're buying boxes of paper every two months.

You can refill the printer ink with your eyes closed.

It's essential to get your eyes examined because by the time you get to the end of a story everything is all blurry.

You have a stack of read stories that are too good to get rid of and too tall to file and you don't know what to do with them.

you turn stories over to print on the backs but you run out of paper before story, so you have to print on the back of another story, making it nearly impossible to every read the entire first story again.

You learn to read and drive at the same time

You ignore children who are camping beside you telling you that L&C aren't real, mom, they're not real. I'm real! PAY ATTENTION TO ME

You take stories to church and hide them in a church manual so you can read while the speakers are talking and only look like you're preparing a lesson.

you put up 20 hammocks in pretty spots throughout the woods just so you have places to be comfortable for reading LC stories when you're going for a walk...which you are only doing to make sure it doesn't look like you sit around reading all day!

You make sure you have enough pages of an unread story along whenever you go anywhere

You judge driving distance by how many pages it'll take to keep you occupied

you wonder why you're depressed, then realize it's because L&C are having a big fight in your current story

You're halfway through reading all the awarded stories in the archive and worry what you'll do when you get through the z's.

You feel out of the loop if you don't remember details of every story they chat about on mIRC

You organize your time around long story breaks

When people ask what you've been doing lately, all you can think to talk about is the stories you've read or how many pages you've written

when you don't mind losing your job because it'll give you more time to read anyway.

When you discover nature is so much bettter when you read as you walk

when winter and clouds don't bother you anymore, you can just stay inside and read without any silly excuses

when everything that is funny or that happens in RL can be woven into your current story

when you decide to go off it cold turkey, but you find you really can't, even when you want to.

Pam,
Is FARCE a 12-step group? It sure looks like we need one here.

Frank - NO! I am NOT in denial.

*Life is good, school has gone well, everything's fine and dandy, but you are depressed because you posted a chapter to a fic and haven't gotten any fdk all day.

• When you have to keep yourself from laughing in the voting booth because their example flier lists John Doe as a write-in candidate
• When your Journalism professor assigns you to find an investigative piece, one that you need to file a public records request for, and the first thing that comes to mind is, "Isn't that Jimmy's job?"

Sara (who managed to make it all the way to the car before she started laughing about John Doe)

When you talk to people out of mirc and starts ur sentences like: "/me ..."

When you cant think of anything else to list , but you still wanna leave the topic open just in case you remember anything you missed.

MDL

When you use fan fiction as a "warm up" before you start studying for a test.

Melisa

YES, that's so true, Melisa!

...and you know you're hopelessly addicted when that 'warm up' fic turns into hours of reading fic after fic, and you suddenly come to the jarring realization that it's 3 in the morning and you must give up sleep to cram or else you will fail!

Mirage

You mean this really happens to other people besides me!!! Wow!!!!

When you go to switch off the computer, just before going to bed, and notice that a favourite author has just replied to the comments for her last post, and ended with the statement 'Part 3 coming up shortly', so you put off going to bed and hope she really means 'shortly' and not 'in the next couple of hours'....

Helga

P.S. Just checked and she really did mean shortly, yay!

When you check the boards 3 or 4 times a day to see if anything new has been posted.


When you download and save all the stories to zip disk and burn new backup CDs once a week to make sure you don't loose any of the stories.


When you take your laptop computer with you when you travel just so you can read L&C stories.

I use to print them out on paper but I got to feeling guilty about all the trees I was killing so now I download them and save to zip disks and burn CDs and read them on my computer screen.

When you're dead tired after performing in a play...but the day just isn't complete until you're caught up on all the new posts.

JD
:p

-you can type the mbs URL faster that you can make it out.

-your best friend offers you a teddy bear and ask about how you're gonna name it, you just shrugs and answers "Clark, of course!", which leads to big laughing time since she's well aware of your FoLC status.

-you sprinkle your snail mails with emoticons.

-you tell your mother not to Ellen you when she becomes a bit overbearing.

-You confidently reply ‘I wasn’t in the mood’ when your boss wonders what happened to the trade show he assigned you.

-at some point LCTNAOS+ the boards truly were your lifesavers.

-When traveling abroad (regardless of the country) you just think 'Hey! There are at least 2, 4, 10 (pick a number) FoLCs here!' to feel less lonely.

-it's way past bed (or is it waking up ?) time. All you need is 5 more minutes to finish the fanfic you’re reading. That’s when your conscience points out “five minutes?!! But you’ve just hit page 247 of "Masques!!”

-You accept every abroad assignent ‘cause you hate being grounded and the world’s so beautiful from up there.

-When going through the FT pages, you suddenly become cautious around the Lex column.

-You either think, dreams, talks or replies in english instead of your mother tongue.

-You almost LOLed when a colleague in need of english/mothertongue translation greets you with a « who speaks a supergood english ? » and you answer « me, but I’ve got superotherurgentthingstodofirst ».

-you know more about your FoLC friends life than your relatives one OR your e-friends know you better than your closes relatives.

-when messing up with a cooking recipee you peptalk yourself with a « don’t worry, you can’t be worse than Lois in a kitchen ».

-you think than beating your personal off the Net record is MI.

-you had an aversion for anything Superhero related and now you track down every single thing on the subject.

-When listening to a song, you think “oh, that’s so LC!!”

-You ROTFL each time you hear the beginning of Spin Doctors's 'Jimmy Olsen Blues'.

-you consider buying a laptop.

You feel like you're cheating on Lois and Clark because you also like MJ and Peter (even though it's not nearly as much)

Who's MJ and Peter?

MJ (Mary Jane) Peter (Spiderman)

"tingley" TEEEEEEJ

...you're sitting around post-operation with only one working arm so you leave the fanfic site open for easy access.

Or...

you buy a laptop in order not to miss fanfic + the FoLCs while you're on vacation.

See ya,
AnnaBtG.