It's October. The countdown to a closure.

You know you're addicted to blogging if:

• If you can’t access the site, you have a minor freak out - and a major case of hitting reload.
• You found yourself composing journal entries during dates, movies, driving, dinner, etc.
  When you’re out, you suddenly think of a witty reply to a comment somebody made to you… several days ago.
• You’ve downloaded some sort of program which has only the purpose of making entries easier to write without going on the site manually.
• You consider it a great offense if someone deletes you off their friend’s list.
• The first thing you do every day when you go online is check your friends journals - even before checking your email.
• When your friends ask what’s new, you get mad at them because you already wrote it in your blog and they didn’t check it yet.
• You can’t seem to call your friends by their real names.
• You have written posts to notify people you’re going to sleep.
• You talk about your blog friends to your real life friends all the time… like they’re a part of your group.
• You’ve created a blog community, and people actually post in it.
• You’ve been recognized in real life by fellow bloggers.
• Instead of doing research, you post difficult questions on your blog.
• You’ve stopped being friends with someone in real life because of something they’ve said on their blog.
• You have consoled yourself after a horrible day thinking “At least this will make a great post”
• You’re jealous of people who have more friends and/or comments than you.
• You have written a really great, solid post - only to be disappointed by the lack of good comments.
• You’re guilty of commenting excessively to get more traffic to your blog.
• You give shout outs to all your blog friends on their birthdays.
• You have an additional, secret journal that hardly anyone knows about.
• You have gotten mean anonymous comments and you can figure out who it was via their IP.
• You have more blog friends than real life friends.
• You're blogging in your head before you fall asleep.
• Your out of town husband and you converse in your blog's comments.
• You tell your friends and family things like, "I'll ping you and you ping me back," or "Okay, I want to trackback on your last comment..."
• You blog in your head an event that's happening at that very moment!
• You actually take the time to figure out how to set up Active Desktop in Windows just so that you can make your Bloglines MyBlogs page your Windows background.
• And then you actually leave it that way because you like it... and you make that your browser home page.
• You check your journal more than 10 times a day, or even 10 times an hour.
• You have more Journal Comment Alerts in your mailbox than spam.
• Your best friends have screen names and URLs instead of real names and street addresses.
• You log down the number on your hit counter before you sign off at night and check it first thing in the morning. You record these numbers for future reference.
• You have actually been late for work because you were reading your favorite journals.
• You family has to leave a comment on your journal to get your attention.
• You turn the volume up when you walk away from the computer so you can hear when the alert alarm sounds.
• Being the #1 Editor's Pick is more important to you then winning a Pulitzer Prize.
• You do the blog quizzes and post the results for everyone to see.
• You have been tagged for a meme, played along and later on you tag other bloggers.
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are blog addicts.