| You know you've been subscribed to Aikido-L for too long when... You're surprised when other people say they don't use their email for much because you spend more than two hours checking yours. Every day. You feel a strong urge to torture, kill, or psychologically maim those who send "unsubscribe" messages to the list instead of the server. You travel more than 100 miles to practice Aikido with people you have only met over the internet and you honestly don't understand why your family members seem to think this is a bad thing. You do not find it odd that you can get half a megabyte of your server allotment just by emtying your trash twice a day. You get frustrated with someone onlist, so you tell them to grab your wrist. Then the two of you type out an intricate interaction to show what happened, even though you're 4,000 miles apart and can't possibly reach each other. When you type something like "4,000 miles," you feel a strong urge to follow it up with "(approx. 6437 kilometers)." You start feeling depressed when you check for new mail and there are only 30 new messages since the last time you checked it. Three hours ago. You can't even BEGIN to understand people who don't own a computer. You understand all of those inside jokes that start at list seminars. You refer to Aikido-L as "The List" as if it's the only list worth being on. And you believe it's a form of blashphemy to say that it's not. If you spend a large amount of time nomail for whatever reason (personal life complications, temporary lack of internet connection, etc.), it feels strangely like a family reunion when you rejoin the list. Your personal life gets in the way of mat time, forcing you to spend more than a year away from the dojo. When asked if you ever studied a martial art, you respond that you currently practice Aikido. You still talk and think about it every day even without the mat time because you check your email. Humor Main Page Email Me |