....when you have 2 quizzes due for grad school by midnight but you aren't working, but rather you're outside patching your tent in the sun and posting on the forums...lol...

Home for your uncle's funeral, you have dinner with your aunt at her luxury senior living complex... and while in the dining room you can not help but observe the similarities between there and fest... walking a distance for food... and upon arrival seing many friends, some new and some you have known for years and years.

Anne, you officially win the prize for the most obsessed if you see fest in a senior living complex! Sorry about your uncle. :(

Anne-sorry to hear about your uncle.
See you at fest :-). Thanks for your words of wisdom.

Anne, I'm sorry for your loss.

You know you're addicted to Fest when you call your soon-to-be grad school adviser (whom you've never met, but whom you've talked with on the phone, can tell she's really cool, and who wrote a lesbian coming of age novel) to set up a visit at Western Michigan...and you start trying to convince her to go to Fest! ...Yeah, I just did that. But apparently, she's been wanting to attend!

You know you're addicted when you, upon getting bad news from your doctor and a surgery date of August 4th, you freak out... not about the surgery, but about missing Fest! You decide to sleep on it, and then the next day, you call the doctor and tell her it needs to be postponed. The doctor tells you the next opening is in November. You are in a great deal of pain and know you will be in pain for 3 more months, but you tell her you'll take the November date. And you send in your DART registration and go to Fest!

You know you're addicted to Fest when the random piped-in music at your job suddenly becomes awesome and reminds you of how much you want to be at Fest EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVEN'T EVER BEEN THERE YET. And you have it stuck in your head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtH4sExQTiU

It's a wonderful folkish song called "Dying Day", about missing someone you love and travelling back to them. I LOVE THE LAND AND FEST!

~~~~ I left home a long long time ago
In a tin can for the road
With a suitcase and some songs
Chasing miles through the night time
Making tracks with no time for looking back
To the place where I belong

*****How these days grow long
But I'm on my way back home
It's been hard to be away
How I miss you and I just want to kiss you
And I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long*******

When you're sad you know I wish I could be there
To make your sorrows disappear
And set your troubles free
It's not fair for me to be this far from you
But I promise to stay true, wherever I might be

Time keeps burning
The wheels keep on turning
Sometimes I feel I'm wasting my days
How I miss you and I just want to kiss you
And I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long
Time keeps burning on
How these days grow long

Now I'm lost in a sea of sunken dreams
While the sound of drunken screams echoes in the night
But I know all of this will come to pass
And I'll be with you at last forever by your side

How these days grow long
But I'm on my way back home
It's been hard to be away
How I miss you and I just want to kiss you
And I'm gonna love you till my dying day
Time keeps burning
The wheels keep on turning
Sometimes I feel I'm wasting my days
How I miss you and I just want to kiss you
And I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long
Time keeps burning on
How these days grow long ~~~~~~~

You know you are addicted to Fest when you get your period exactly seven days before the gate is going to open and you do a big HAPPY DANCE. :)

Bigryl! I know!!! Same here! PLUS it was a week early! I was a little uneasy thinking I was going to be on my period in the line but then TAH DAH! It came! I have never been so excited to see "Aunt Flo"

Exactly my thoughts! Doing the red happy dance right now...which means I can go commando most of Fest ;D