<p>Take a break from obsessing about your kid’s college search to share how obsessed you are with CC!</p>
<p>For example, you know you’re addicted to CC when you tell your spouse not to interrupt when you are emailing advice to a student in India! Or when you can relate to a mother’s anguish over her child scoring “only” 2100 on the SAT!</p>
<p>When you burn breakfast/lunch/dinner. Or all three.</p>
<p>When you go to a college visit and talk about CC, and someone else comes up and shouts their screenname at you. You have an instant understanding of one another.</p>
<p>When you need a new pair of shoes and, instead of looking for them on Zappos, you start a new thread in the cafe, then sit back and click on the links posted in the replies :)</p>
<p>Speaking of CC screen names: when we visited one of the schools that admitted her, my yD who was seriously CC-addicted during her senior HS year drew a cartoon of her CC screen name on her name tag. Several girls recognized it and told her, “Hi Ms. Screenname, I’m Ms. Anotherscreenname!”</p>
<p>When someone who used to participate with me on an AOL message board years ago (and my screen name was completely different from this one) recognized me on this one!</p>
<p>… you are able to guess postings from classmates of your S/D by hints, even if their screen name is completed different from their RL name (done this twice now.)</p>
<p>When you look for threads with dozens of pages, because you know they are going to be entertaining.</p>
<p>You know you’re addicted to CC when you look forward to threads in the Cafe about cats and you don’t even own a cat!</p>
<p>When you set CC as your browser home page … just saying, I am not quite there yet.</p>
<p>When every piece of advice/information you give your child begins or ends with “that’s what someone on CC said!”</p>
<p>(even though I can tell, by the “over 3000” posters on here…I’m still just a rank amateur)</p>
<p>^^^and when your son who refuses to go on cc, when faced with any question asks “what does someone on cc say”</p>
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<p>Raises hand.</p>
<p>When you tell your DH that you are considering a clothing purchase that Riverrunner or MofWC suggested - and that Bunsen said she really liked.</p>
<p>When you have to give it up for Lent every year. Just to prove you “can.”</p>
<p>Then, right after Easter, you get back on again. . .</p>
<p>when your daughter has a question and asks you to start a thread about it on CC.</p>
<p>As I’ve explained many times to my family and friends, I’m NOT addicted to CC. I’m only reading this for a friend and I can quit anytime I want to.</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>“burn dinner”…how about not even starting dinner because you’re on CC; </p>
<p>“Oh, is it really 7:00 PM already?”</p>
<p>. . your filing at work is piling up, but you always have time to check the “Latest Posts”.</p>
<p>you quickly switch to another screen when someone comes in your office - mine is at home, so it’s usually H or DS. Kinda like hiding a vodka bottle…lol.</p>
<p>you starting using terms like H or DS when communicating in emails…or even in conversation…lol!</p>
<p>You find out that a friend posts on CC and, instead of asking his or her screen name, you try to figure it out</p>