You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[Ryan F.]

You read this thread in one sitting...and can realate to it all...even when you have a ton of homework to do.

--or you're excited when you see you created page 71

[JasJ002]

......Two weeks after your Inventor submission is due your already working on new ideas for constraint driven animation.
......You wake up looking at your robot in inventor form
......Your friend crashes your car and still show up to the shop the next day
.....You can listen to the same 8 hour cd two times through in one sitting
.....when your idea of taking a break is shooting
.....You can picture the shop with your eyes closed but your room is a complete blank
.....When you laugh cause somebody yelled your g/f's name
.....when you stick soda bottles upside on the roof
.....when you spend all of class looking through stuff that shows that your addicted to FIRST
.....it seems weird that a parent isn't bringing food to the school for you

[neveragainagain]

When you can visualize the robot in it's various versions and with futre modifications at random points in time.

[Jonathan M.]

...when the last few girl friends you've had and/or the girl your with now are a part of FIRST.

[crazyone]

.... on every single piece of your wardrobe you can locate at least one FIRST logo or your team logo.

....the lights in your room are not regular lamps, but the old rotating lights from past robots

[Rob Colatutto]

... when you meet your fiance at a FIRST event
... you drove 12 hours in Big Mike's car to attend said event

[MisterX]

...when you keep updating the FNATASY FIRST thread to see if the latest draft has happened even though it is 1230 and the purson on deck sint on CD

...when you are ahppy you can take a match test on tuesday rather then everbody else on Friday of the same week so that you can go to Atlanta and nto worry about it

[BandChick]

...when you move your beg your teacher to let you make up midterms in a class that doesn't allow that because you'll be in atlanta
...when you offer hotel space to complete strangers to you in FIRST, just because they are girls and in FIRST.

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by BandChick

...when you offer hotel space to complete strangers to you in FIRST, just because they are girls and in FIRST.

.. when you take that said space just so you can go

.. when your parents say that you cant go to nationals, but you are going anyways

[mtaman02]

I'm a short person failry thin and can be compacted to any size. I can fit in any duffel bag or cardboard box (hint hint - someone wanna take meto nats I can't go b/c of work but looking for aways to go)

....when you ask your boss to take off work the week of nats with the remaining days in the bank and he says no b/c theres to many people that have already taken off. (I'll beat them to it next year Watch! I'll ask for the days off for april in January hehe)

[Steve Horn]

...when you check chief delphi before physics class where your physics teacher is your FIRST coach

...when the background of your computer is of the Stack Attack field

[mtaman02]

When you start watching the NASA Webcasts at 1AM EST knowing fully well that the fields are empty and its the only thing you can do b4 you go to sleep and leave for work in just 8 hrs.



*cries - I wish I was there*

When a team takes a picture of the pits area and sends it in a postcard type email and labels at the top "wish you were hear" and you start crying cuz u can't go

[shyra1353]

.. when on thursday you dont go to nationals and you cant concentrate on the book you are supposed to be reading in english class so you go to sleep, you fail a physics quiz and then start crying through the lesson .. and then spend the whole afternoon crying on a friends shoulder (hes the best!)

[Amanda Aldridge]

...you're waaaay too excited when you see the number 71....and cry when they win their 4th because you weren't there.

[Steve Horn]

...when you tell your friends who aren't going to nationals to watch on the NASA webcast and you remind them by email a few times the week you are leaving