* You keep pointing at things and trying to move them with your mind
* You arrive at work and wonder in an offhand kind of way whether or not everyone can see your hair
* You’re disgruntled that your lover’s genitalia won’t talk to you
* You start referring to the neighbor’s children as “griefers”
* You show up to a party in a bathrobe and slippers, and remember only at the last moment that you don’t have your wardrobe with you
* When looking to see how much time is left on your parking meter, you try to alt-mouse it
* Your start referring to your body as “my avi”
* You buy six dresses and mentally tally the damage: “That couldn’t have been more than, what, eight dollars?”
* You keep going to casinos and sitting on chairs there in hopes someone will give you some money
* Your first instinct in a time of danger is to press ctrl-shift-h
* You begin to argue with the woman at the local tax office, pointing out heatedly that your house is less than 512 sq. m.
* You regularly refer to yourself in conversation with phrases like “Jill Smith laughs.”
* You have tried to mute your annoying coworker on three separate occasions
* More and more often, you find yourself wearing kitty ears and a moving tail to everyday functions.
A few Ways to Tell You’re Spending Too Much Time in Second Life
23 Monday Oct 2006
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rpanganiban said:
LOL!
Ok, I needed that. Thanks.
– Rik Riel / Rik Panganiban
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hyperfinch said:
Yes! And yes!
* you are failing to live up to her expectations because you are terribly afraid that she will simply log off the moment you say something wrong
* you search for your [page up]-key *after* jumping from that hi-rise
*[…]
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jennifer_dunne said:
Too too funny! I loved it.
* You end up having a massive Bad Hair Day, because you thought you could just select a different hair if you didn’t like how the first one looked with your outfit.
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Anonymous said:
🙂
Love your writing, always a pleasure 🙂
–Ethan
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Anonymous said:
Brilliant! And so true! Love your blog.
Mordecai Scaggs
scaggslife.blogspot.com
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