Not really. Actually anything that opens your mind to new trains of thought and gets you learning new things is very good for you.

So what's the author of that book and is it any good? I'll have to see if there's a copy locally...

..when you watch an epi you've already seen, just so you can see EXACTLY where the perps gave themselves away, before they were figured out. In retrospect, it's almost always obvious.

you know you're obsessed when you don't want to wear your red blazer to an important meeting because it reminds you of Leslie Lazard.

Guilty as charged! On days I'm in the office, I just leave it up all day and check in whenever I have a few minutes between filing, phone calls, writing up assessments, etc. AND of course my breaks and lunch are all spent right here.

You get complimented on a random VDO picture you found that you posted in the caption it thread, so you try to track down the owner of the website it came from. With one clue to start with: A small group of letters in the bottom right corner.

You find the original site's been left to itself for over 4 years, the AIM name may or may not be still in use and the email address is dead.

Through some creative googling, and following the trail through 2 more sites, you succeed and are now awaiting an answer to your message.

Oh yeah... I'm ready to join TARU!

You know you're obsessed and it's contagious when your husband says that a little girl in a commercial looks like Eames.

I hope that you get the larger version of that pic. It was so hot...

Heh heh... Got something fun coming your way then.

ooooooooooo *braces self*

You know you're obsessed when you stay up till almost 2am making icons and remixing your banner, and still don't quite finish, because there's a few more you want to make.

You pack up the files that aren't done and take them to work to try and finish them.

You post what you do have done so you can deliver.

Enjoy JC.

its noon and your still in your pj's You have LOCI on in the background and your on the boards instead of doing housework.

I recied your answer to another fellow obsesses fan. Though I am retired from worked( due to health) I am still just as bad! I constantley look for ci evey chance I get. I have it down pat to have dinner done and kitchen cleaned to catch ci at seven pm on USA. some times it will come on at six and seven, but six as been svu, lately. SVU is good, but it can never replace CI in my heart....bettes

You know you're obsessed when you watch "Cherry Red" for the first time and hear Bobby say that people's gums recede more on the side opposite their dominant hand because they brush more vigourously there and then you run to the bathroom and check your gums. (It's true actually too!)

You know you're obsessed when you bring sandwiches to work for lunch so that you can sit at your desk and check out the CI board. Can't bring anything that has to be heated because that would take too much time away from the board!

You know you are obsessed when you think the man walking through your parking lot looks like the abortion doctor shooter from the third horseman.

... when, while on a business trip, you pause for a moment to note to yourself that the voice on the tramcar at the airport sounds exactly like Nicole Wallace.

Did it butter your parsnips?

You know you're obsessed with CI when you see a donation box for dental hygiene supplies and thing of "Smile".

When being from the south you don't know what scones and parsnips are, so you have to look them up, look like carrots and biscuts to me.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you are excited it's Chris Noth's birthday.

AND

You know you're obsessed with CI when you realize you just posted in every Chris related thread and in off-topic that it's his birthday.

(Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's official. I'm nuts! Send the men in the white coats!)

Nah. That's just fandom. Relax and enjoy it. If there are so many other people who feel the way you do, well, you can't ALL be crazy right?

You know you're obsessed when its 8/20 and you think all day how its Bobby's birthday.
Also, when you're posting the Three Word Story in your sleep. THough, that might make me obsessed with the boards.

You know you're obsessed when your friend wants to set you up with a guy named, "Bob" and you think, "Thats a good start..."

Don't do it Cluck! K

You know you're obsessed with CI when you know the episode that airs at 4am on USA is the same episode that airs on your local MyNetwork affiliate at 4pm and you DVR both.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you stay up late playing on the boards and then you make up CI lyrics to "The Copa Cabana" in the shower. And you think they're hilarious 'cause you're so tired.

"Her name is Nola, Nola Falacci..."

you know you are obsessed when you are tying to explain to your students what a gray pinstripe fabric is and you use Bobby's suit as an example.

Glad someone besides me found them amusing!

When you go away on holiday and you are missing him like crazy because there isnt any chance of watching him on tv at anytime or place

How about when you are at your parents' house and see a stack of National Geographics and think, if Bobby was here he'd be reading all of them.

Well, you know you're obsessed when you go to the dentist and as you stare up at the Perkins & Crane light, all you can think of is this:


Not a bad thought when they are raking your mouth with sharp metal instruments.

I want to hear the rest of the song! Copa Cabana is one of my guilty pleasure songs. It's actually kinda of a bummer song when you think about it. It also got played during the disco 1/2 hr at midnight during 80's night... At a Goth club. A real live honest to goodness Goth club named Netherworld. With real live authentic Goths. Doing a conga line around the club when it was played. We also had choreography to go with "Stayin' Alive". Absolutely true.




I went to the dentist yesterday. I didn't think of that scene. Wish I had. There's no such thing as too much VDO on your mind.

The hygenist asked if I wanted the TV on (my dentist's office is POSH), and I said not unless there's some L&O on somewhere. There sadly isn't any at 8am. But she also used an instrument that while being pointy and metal, also vibrated and shot water, so it wasn't anything like what I had been expecting based on experience with my previous dentist. My previous one wasn't bad or anything, I just moved out of the area.

That is why I travel with my DVDs to watch on my computer just in case the hotel does not have a CI channel.

When I burst out laughing.... at the eye doctor's because he did the "Goren lean" when he was looking into my eyes with the light........ I cracked up laughing, saying "I'm sorry!" because I felt so bad that I was laughing at the eye doctor while I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!! He looked at me like I was CRAZILY, INSANELY, CRAZY!!!!!!! Hmm, I wonder why..............

lol I'll have to finish it and clean up the lame bits. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget.

Here's the Wheeler part:

Her name is Wheeler.
She’s now in Europe.
Logan’s sad she’s gone away
But she’ll be back to stay

Yeah, I know it's dumb.

MOAR! MOAR!

And if I can suggest:
And Logan’s sad she’s gone away
But soon she’ll be back to stay

To incentivize this... If DOM writes it, I'll sing it.
That's right kids, your very own Janx, with her mediocre singing, solely for ya'lls enjoyment.
A fan-song and performance for all our friends here.

*sigh* I wish there was a LOCI-con somewhere...

You know you're obsessed when a coworker's black nail polish reminds you of Falacci.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you tell your friends about what happened in the "To Ship or Not to Ship" thread today. And they know what you're talking about.

you're watching a shakespeare play at lincoln center where martha plimpton plays the heroine (a princess), and it's a great play and she's a very good actress, but all you can think is ... "oh my god watch out it's Jo Gage!" ok, so at least I didn't say that out loud, lol.

Or when you tell them about what happened on the shipping thread or the 3-word story and they DON'T know what you are talking about--but you keep telling them anyway!

Ok, here is one...
When just accepted another job and you are planning to resign from your current company (of seven years!) on Thursday (because it is the only day your boss is in the office) and you think, "Oh, I don't want to deal with that on Thursday!" but then you think, "Well, at least I will be over it by the time L&OCI comes on and it will be a distraction during the day!". But, then you think, "Ok, but then I have to be all done with telling my family and friends how the resignation went by 10pm."

I think I belong in a mental ward- but at least Bobby can keep my company

Every time I go into a public restroom, I always think of the episode, "Cold Comfort" when the woman gets stabbed in the leg in the bathroom!!!!! (I look around and make sure there's no one that fits that description around.) Also, when I am in the stall, I ALWAYS think of Goren's comment that a woman would not put her purse on the hook, but Eames said a woman WOULD put the purse on the hook, and Goren says, "Right. It's a girl thing!" (Something like that.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you talk so much about CI that your friend (who isn't a regular viewer) points out a billboard at a basketball game that says "Wheeler" on it.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you use your camera phone to take pictures of your CI background wallpaper so that you will have CI wallpaper on your phone, too.

What a great idea, never thought to do that Thanks.

You're welcome.

You know your obsessed with CI when you load five fan videos and all of the L&O themes onto your iPod.

You know you're obsessed with CI when you intricately analyze a single episode and write massive amounts of notes – because you're a nerd.