2. if you respond to this post with a big smile, and thoughts of many other answers

But I will indulge you...

3. If you have trouble picking a favorite reason from the hundreds you've memorized

4. you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print. it's chaos.

5. you can use Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, Maya, 3ds Max, Revit and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.

6. If you love concrete more than children.

i know its been done a thousand times... that was a new low for me... haha

7. you'd rather go to an architecture lecture than on a date, or ask your date if they'd like to go to the lecture for your date

concrete ROCKS!

you wake up at 7 each morning to see if anyone has responded to your posts on archinect....sadden if they haven't

lol architechnophilia.....that's sooooooooooo true! hahaha

i always thought i was a relatively rad person until i read this thread.

i just realized i totally qualify for all items listed above. awesome.

When you start buying T-Shirts off architecture web pages and then your non-architect friends think you've finally lost it because they dont get why you would were such a thing to work - and not get fired for it.

when u prefer ppl call u geek than dork.

when you go out for drinks on friday with co-workers and spend 2 hrs discussing your coordination issues between Revit Building and Revit Structure

.. this is last friday for me

When your roommate asks you for advice on a holiday present for her architect brother, and you refer her to the archinect t-shirt section...

when you go out in public with your architecture sucks teeshirt, thinking it would be soo cool if you met some good lookin ladies with the same shirt on!

you have an architectural tattoo

you've taken a date to a building for the architecture... and brought a sketchbook.

When you consistently wake up your husband in the middle of the night and ask him to bring your drafting table down from the roof. (All the while, the drafting table is in the closet.)

hah hah DCA, nearly wet my pants with that one.

you find architecture related things in your everyday life that you would love to share with your friends that you've never met in person, your friends on archinect.

good one, techno.

Friends? From a message board? I'm beginning to believe it myself.

I have not finessed my references to information gathered on Archinect in everyday conversation yet. It's always, "This guy I know told me..." or "I heard the other day that.." and hope people don't ask me too much about my sources...

DCA...i thought i was the only one

THEaquino: You're never alone on Archinect.

when you wait for the stop sign to turn green, and haven't even been drinking...

You have a collection of photos dedicated to reinforcing mesh. Sexy.

You use your dinner time at your desk to read Archinect.

while cooking dinner, you leave food cooking on the stove and go in the other room to go read archinect... I can hear it fizzling, better get back.

So true, diabase. Guilty as charged - I've got so many job site photos of rebar, tubes, and other building materials that just look cool.

haha strawbeary.... i did it last night!!!

when you hang out at home depot and look at screws for 2 hours realizing that all you were there for was some fiberglass resin

I almost burned down my villa doing that Strawbeary....many times.

you'd think we'd get smart and run wireless or keep the desktop in the kitchen. Or wait simply not cut at that time (maybe we'd never eat)

when you have a sexual dream involving Le Corbusier

ha ha, last night when i posted that -- i burned dinner, just a bit on the edges, damn archinect

when you talk about how heavy your rhino file is getting while dancing with a girl at a bar... happened to someone i know last weekend

12:35a waiting for a response on my archinect post...sad indeed

when you are still working at two am and didnt get out of the office for dinner.

the big roll of bubble wrap in the back room is tempting me to curl up and zzzzzzzzz

QoE has it. If you know what sleeping on bubble wrap is like (usually pre-popped)

You get excited about watching videos of Peter Zumthor buildings. Then make the mistake of telling your significant other about the experience.

I got one:
(happened to me the other day) when trying to be suave in chatting up some bird, and inadvertently she's telling you about her place in Texas, and mentions crown moulding and you go off on a diatribe about the notion of what "good aesthetics" are and what contractors thing it is supposed to be.

no wonder I cant find a cute gal!
haha

meant to say "what contractors THINK it is...."
sorry

Um...I had another one with Thom Mayne last night. Is that wrong?

Lovebird....you know your in trouble when it is Maybeck....your dreaming about.

When you go on a date with an Interior designer, and constantly ponder if its okay to bring up thoughts of Zumthor, or any architect doing good work at the moment

snooker - That would be a nightmare.

re: counting archinectors among your friends: now that liberty bell and i know each other, have visited each other, and have taught together, it's fun to just tell people that 'we met online'. gets nervous giggles, mostly.

...when the idea of reading anything other than things related to architecture seems like a waste of time. i don't read books for entertainment value anymore, i read to inform what i want to do in architecture. does that make me a dork?

i'm right there with you beta... i've tried on several occasions over the past few years to read something non-architectural... fiction, non-fiction, biography, whatever... every time i'm lucky to get out of the first chapter before i put the book down to pick up some arch. theory book...

When you say things like "Richard did this..." and "Remember Thom's..." or "Did you see Frank's..." and the person you're talking to doesn't respond with "Frank who?," you're both archidorks!

If your living room consists of a Le Corbusier couch, an Eames chair and ottoman, a Marcel Breuer Laccio Table set, a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair, an Eero Saarinen side table, and a Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin Table, you might be an archidork.

you walk by a cool restaurant and say to your date,

"Can we go inside to see the bathrooms?"

being mentioned in themy favorite archinect'ers post is your claim to fame and you bring it up every chance you get. of course you always do this at parties while wearing your "architecture sucks" or "le$$" t-shirt.