(Taken from http://www.cg-files.com/25-Reasons-you-might-be-a-hardcore-cg.html)
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[]You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing [COLOR=Black]a font on a[/COLOR] billboard.
[]You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
[]You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
[]You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
[]You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
[]You consider meals interruptions.
[]You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
[]You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
[]You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
[]You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
[]You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
[]When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
[]When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
[]You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
[]You’ve actually $paid for a font.
[]You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
[]The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
[]You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
[]You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
[]You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
[]You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
[]You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
[]You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
[]You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
[*]If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.[/LIST]
