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Jose and Sara urged me to make a post similar to Sara's journalism post a while ago, after I shared my scribblings with them. Since I'm such a good girl and do everything I'm told (/me fends off mom who's laughing her head off), I present you with Julie's Notes Born Out of Sheer Classroom Boredome. <g>

You know you're addicted when:

• You use emoticons when writing by hand.
• One of your favourite authors is a rodent.
• One of your favourite producers is a bird.
• Your net friends/FoLCS know all about you but your real name.
• You meet them and they still don't know your real name.
• You went into a liquor store and asked for qwine.
• You were so shocked to find that it doesn't exist, that you registered it as a trade mark.
• Your favourite drink is Labrat Blue
• Ads for Wendy's(tm) are not associated with fast food anymore.
• You have a little rule about using Lexmark products.

Your job is to add your own points to this list. <g>

Julie

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Okay, that's all I've got for now! I'm sure I'll be back later!

Sara (who is trying to look innocent...those were just examples...not really *me* )

Okay, lemme see...

• You really wanted the Democrate Party primaries to end up with Howard Dean & Wesley Clark, because you wanted that "Dean/Clark" bumper sticker
• You drive hundreds of miles to meet a FOLC friend.
• You drive hundreds of miles, meet FOLC friends, and go on IRC to talk with them
• The kids at your kids' school know you as "the mom who likes Superman"
• Instead of counting sheep at night, you ponder fanfic plot points
• Your family knows better than to bother you on Kerth nights

And I suppose there are many more...

PJ

ROFL!! Ahm...

1. You ask for Double-Fudge Crunch Bars in a candy store in the States, and you're shocked when they don't have them

2. For your birthday, your best friends clubbed together and bought you a hand-painted picture of Superman - and you love it!

3. Your father's given up asking you why you're typing so frantically when on IRC; ""Who can you POSSIBLY be talking to??"

4. Every song on the radio reminds you of Lois and Clark/Lois and Lex <g>

5. You throw out all the green rocks or gems you have just in case it's Kryptonite

6. You find yourself humming the theme song as you work

Sara [ !!]

I couldn't come up with any and these were all hilarious, but one stuck out big time so I had to comment.




TEEEEEEEJ

1. you're inordinately proud of the fact that you got the mp3 of the theme song to work on your cell phone

2. you have the opportunity to get a vanity plate for your car and you spend all day thinking up 7 letter combos that would work like Sup1Fan or Chumpy or FoLC

~Liz (who me? )

You know you're addicted to fanfic...

...when you're involved in a story and you check back every five minutes to see if there's any new segments posted.

...when you've posted a story and you check back every five minutes to see if there's any comments posted.

...when a Superman related incident happens in the world and you check the message board every five minutes to see if there's a thread posted about it.

...when you think of a really cool LNC story plot and post it on the board and then check back every five minutes to see if anyone else commented about it.

...when you're really needy and you check the message board every five minutes to see if there's any new posts.

TEEEEEEEEEEJ

guys! Great thread, Julie!

I've only got a couple to add (so far)...

• Your AIM screenname ends in "folc" and hardly any of your friends ask why
• You see something funny in the street and find yourself thinking "LOL"
• You have custom IRC scripts to deal with keywords such as "disembowel"
• At least half your friends know your muse's name
• It feels funny to call your best friend by her real name instead of an alias
• People hundreds of miles away whom you have rarely, if ever, seen in person have a better idea of what you do with your spare time than your own siblings
• Someone asks you where a friend lives and you have to think for a sec to be sure you name the right country
• You know the episodes of a TV show that went off the air years ago better than you know what's going on with the shows on the air now
• You spend more time reading about the characters of a TV show that went off the air years ago than you do reading about your country's political candidates (after all, you already know how you're voting...)
• You can leave your house on a trip, stop the mail, forget your cell phone, and leave almost everything behind... except your laptop. Going without net access would be unthinkable.
• You sign on to quickly see what's new and find yourself sitting for half an hour making up a list of signs that you're addicted to FoLCdom

... Okay, so it turns out I had more than a couple after all. Sue me.

Paul

Damn... I won't admmit I am!


Let me see.

You know when you´re addicted when:

* You talk to the same FoLCs via mIRC, MSN, e-mail and boards.

*When you come to mIRC and people ask you how was the chicken pizza you went out to eat on the previous night.

*When you wake up and print your already 2X BRed story just to pick a few mistakes left before posting it.

*When you miss a test at university only because you were unable to attend it and read a part from your favorite story at the same time.

*When your favorite story is up and your run to read it just to be the first one to post FDK so you are able to give it the title you want.

*When people see you online and start hiding because they can't stand your nagging anymore.

*when you know you´re being a bore, but you can't help it.

*when you go through all the sections of the boards, trying to see which ones you haven't posted anything yet.

*when you post your own FDK thread just to count how many people posted FDK for you properly.

*when your favorites songs are the ones that FoLcs have made videos with.

*when you named your white teddy bear Clarkie and your sister's Jimmy even if she didn't agree with that.

*when you start calling your boyfriend, who wears glasses, CLark when he has them on, and Sups, when he's without them.

*When you refuse to go out on Friday night because there are too many people on mIRC.

*when your father goes to work in the morning, you distractively says good bye to him and when he comes back from work and says: You´re still on the computer?

*When your father starts telling everybody that you are a writer, but doesn't tell people what you write about.

*when your sister begs for the computer 'cuz she had to do an important research for university and you tell her: "Espera! O Clark vai dizer pra Lois que ele é o Superman!" (Trans: "Wait! Clark will tell Lois he is Superman!")

*when you´re virtually married to another FoLC. (Of the same sex though you´re straight.)

*When you post something this big, knowing you have to stop it although you have other thousands of things to list.

MDL. (Who´s definately not addicted. )

TEEEEEJ

That's really funny!
Let me contribute with a few:

- a) ...you're using English for four hours a day, without living in an English-speaking country or having English-speaking friends/family.
b) ...English words spring to mind more quickly than the ones of your native tongue.
c) ...while you're speaking or writing in Greek, which happens to be your native tongue, you keep using English words or expressions (translated or not) here and there - despite your being an aficionado of keeping the Greek language alive.
d) ...your father is angry for the bad grade you got in Physics, but you have a good grade in English to brag about.
e) ...you type in foreign languages quicker than you do in your own.
- ...you find yourself telling your friends something really funny Clark told Lois in a fic.
- ...your best friend is fourteen years older than you.
- ...you're in a room where the person nearest to you is located more than 1,000 kilometres away.
- ...you're sleepy in the morning, because the only chance you have to talk to your Brazilian friend is at 2 a.m..
- ...for everything you might need there's always someone to ask.
- ...when a new trailer is a reason not to go to the movies.

See ya,
AnnaBtG.

All of these had me cracking up, but I had to point out a few that made me glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time. :p


Pam!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!

Sara! You too?! One of my friends gave me some candy one day...some green powder candy...encased in a plastic Kryptonite chunk. I was like...uh...you just gave me Kryptonite! And she said, "But...it's a Superman thing...thought you'd like it."

Liz...as soon as I get a new car (you know in a few years <g>) I'm putting SKFOLC on my license plate.

That's me all the time, Paul!!

LOL!! Me too!

Me too, Erica!!

No comment.

My sister says I have no social life. :rolleyes:

ROTFL Anna!!!

I didn't think I had anymore, but I ended up thinking of some.

• You miss class because you were busy chatting on IRC
• You've read so much fanfic that when doing homework, you find yourself typing things like "behaviour" instead of "behavior"
• You forget that for homework assignments you should use italics instead of asterisks
• You take your WIP to work on when you go out to the bar to see your RL friends
• You think your keychains are pretty darned cool because you have a Superman one *and* a Paris one...hello...Near Wild Heaven!

Okay, I think I'm done for now.

Sara

You know your addicted:

...when you get in your car after reading the boards to check out a street name 10 miles away.


I did that last Monday night. I was reading the boards about people with names from L&C. I had to verify a road I saw in the next town. In Berlin, MD there is a little street that has a street sign that says No. 5 Lois Lane. I made a special trip back in the daylight and took a picture.

...when you justify your lack of sleep in that, hello, another new segment was posted!

...when you're friends think you *must* be looking at raunchy stuff on the internet; no wonder you hide your computer work so much!

...when you write by flashlight in the middle of a hurricane and tornadoes.

...when your first thought while wasted away on sinus medication is to write a story.

...when you randomly throw UK expressions into your everyday speech.

...when you have so many silly addict moments that you just have to contribute some to the thread!

JD

... when you find that you have experienced most of the above mentioned moments.

ROTFL, Sara!

Mine would be: When you've been offline for TWO WHOLE DAYS without internet access thanks to a server glitch (no TV or phone since Thursday either) and you spend the time periodically coming into the office and wistfully stroking the pc and sobbing quietly.... <g>

LabRat (with lots of catching up to do...)

-you had a week-long high after learning that WB will be releasing the DVD of the series next year!!!

And that's about all I could think of now!

Mirage

When your friends question you about a Lois and Clark picture you use as your MSN icon and ask you what it is id and then get furstrated when they have no clue who you are talking about

Ooh, let me try!

• Every time you hear a song, you find yourself wondering about it's "trailer potential"
• Every time your father turns on "Prarie Home Companion," you think of a FoLC and wonder if he is listening.
• You read this list and find yourself going "yep, yep, did that, sometimes..."
• You consider taking a long trip to a country that you used to have a slight phobia of because there's a possibility you might run into your friend, whom technically you've never even met.
• You spend hours on end wondering of Kryptonian is one of those languages where the noun comes before the adjective.
• Hearing the name "George" makes you burst into giggles
• Hearing the name "Mike" fills you with the urge to write
• You know that only one other person will get the above statement, but don't care because you're still high from reading someone-else's statement about L&C coming out on DVD
• Not knowing who the Democratic Vice-presidential candidate is does't bother you, but you feel stupid because a show that was cancelled years ago might be coming out in disc form and you didn't know.
• Chocolate makes you think of Lois Lane
• Your house was flooded, but the fact that your new apartment now has internet is more exciting than the fact that you even *have* an apartment at all.

Here's mine:

- You remember seeing an certain episode of the show and then realize that, no, it was a fic or nfic.

- You beg a writer to make the story longer or write a sequel, prequel, whatever, because you find their particular Lois and Clark totally believable and/or touching

- You're thrilled to see that a specific writer posted to someone else's thread because you hope that means they'll soon be adding a new chapter to their own story

- You've spent hours arguing on the IRC that making a woman a total b***h and a man a total wimp so the reader can see her growth and his patience rewarded is STOOPID and demeaning (and even though the conversation changes to the benefits of various cat food to force you off your soapbox, and get you to leave, you're back on topic within a week)

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.

you know yer addicted when...

yer thinking about coming in to work on Thanksgiving day to catch the next installment of Haunting Eden


TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJ

Thanksgiving isn't just a national holdiay, it's also a Thursday and you can get another hit of 'Eden'

All I know is that my office is supposed to be closed that day, but I live right down the road and have my own key...

TEEEEEEEJ

You know you're addicted when...

... you blow off your girlfriend when she's in one of her special moods because there's been an update, and you can't understand why she's upset.

... you can - and do - read Faux Pas in one sitting, despite being in the middle of your exam period - because Wendy's fics are brilliant like that. (Does that count as fbk? )

... you can't remember your parent's first names (mum? dad? ... er?), but you can quote 'Chip Off the Old Clark', complete with accents ('Moma, why can I fly? Why can I bend steel bars over my head? Why wasn't I hurt when Uncle Luke shot me?').

LOL! Those are hilarious, guys!

Let's see if I can add more:

• You take entirely too much time doing everyday tasks because it's hard to peel an onion and type on irc at the same time.
• You're sorry to go out because it means you'll be late on irc.
• Your favourite computer techie lives over 4,000 miles away and charges you in bottles of Encona's sweet chilli sauce.
• You have a walk-in closet somewhere in Ontario even though you technically live in France.
• You don't go to Veneto, Italy to see Venice, but because you want to see the Evil FoLC who lives closeby.
• You actually see your Italian, Canadian, American, British, far-away friends a lot more often than the ones who live in your hometown. (pathetic, but true!)
• You're very frustrated with the train strike because it means you need to take your car and you can't read fanfic while driving.
• You were deliriously happy the day you figured out that your classroom computer has a working internet access and it means you can check your email and the boards at each break.
• You occasionally jot down fanfic notes in class and make sure nobody can see you doing so.
• You can't explain clearly how you got to know some of your best friends.
• You agree to take a plane to Canada even though technically you're absolutely terrified of the flying thingies and you'd always told yourself you would never ever step onto one.
• In relation to the previous entry, you actually got a frequent flyer card...

That's all I can think of so far!

Kaethel

You take class of English only to read fanfics! (this am I )

You keep on a dictionary by near to don't lose one word of a fanfic, because your English isn't this good (this am I, too ).

~Andreia (who prints fanfics to read when isn't near a computer)

-you d/l super-long fics, shrink the font to a size 7 in a small font (garamond), shrink the margins to .4" then print them on the backs of recycled paper to carry around with you, in case you might have spare time to read during the day (like when class gets really, really boring)
-you feel like you will just DIE when you're kicked off of your computer because Clark was JUST about to kiss Lois

Mirage

Mirage - that printing thing sound awfully familiar.

A few more:

• You ask your boss if you can come back from your break 15 mins late so you have time to go home and check the boards
• You stay up until 5 am to finish that *last* part of your WIP even though you have to be up at 9 am

Sara (who has to rush back to work soon )

YUP! Mind you I have not been able to do that in about 3 months. Too busy.

I have a habit of printing off stuff and reading it on the bus standing.

How about:
You try and multi-task. You have to read the next chapter!!!!!!!!!!!

Me--> Do hair and makeup (mirror is right beside monitor), eat breakfast and listen to the weather at the same time.

Then again, who needs breakfast.

You find it hard, Sara? How about waiting until 7 am (your time not at reader' time because she wont mention it in order not scare people) checking constantly to be sure she didn't miss that last part being posted?

MDL. (Who? me? I don't do that! Nahhh)

thought I was the only one who did the printing thing, glad I'm not alone ROTFLMAO!!!

heres my little contrabution...

-you spend more time with your online friends then your real friends
-you can't remember names in RL yet somwhow you mange it online...
-you consider reading fanfics just as important as reading the newspaper and often end up with a weeks worth of newspapers un-read *really stink up the place*
-you tie up the phone line so poor granny ends up being frantic about why she can't reach you
-you promise to get off in "just a few minutes" but are still online an hour later

thats all I can think of for now,

You remember songs *not* by their titles, writers or singers, but by which Trailers they were used in!

EDITED to add: You've lived in America all your life, but when you go to type up a paper for school, you catch yourself spelling "behavior" with a u.

(you guys are too hilarious, I don't think I have any, I'm a recovered addict (actually just moved onto other addictions lol) but I know the symptoms well. I do all those things as pertain to my current addiction... but here's one for... You know you're almost addicted when....)

-You owe a debt of gratitute to someone you never met for sending you tapes of Season 3 and 4, and you harbour secret hope that, someday, somehow, somewhere you will meet again so you can say the thankyou's that you never quite got to completely express due to lifes circumstance.

((actually thats just called having a concience but its the closest thing I can come up with you were so... comprehensive.. hehe))