Tell tale signs

So I found this page on facebook. Take a look.http://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Know-Youre-an-Animator-When/201282243241366?sk=info

and here is the list on the info page. It's scary how true these are.

You know You're an Animator When...

... Walking is more complicated than it looks.

... Besides the 'compelling story-lines' Anime generally does suck.

... MAYA is not just the name of a girl you know

... Same goes for BRYCE

... When teachers draw stick figures you doubt their teaching ability.

... When you are used to hearing gasps when you tell people exactly how long it took you to animate 'those 15 seconds'.

... Disney is a building full of Gods.

... You know who Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Ub Iwerks, and Bill Plympton are.... or you ARE them.

... Paper dominates everything else in your room

... You are always think of new things to animate, even while animating something else.

... Drawing 200 drawings in one night is not that uncommon for you.

... Hearing the word 'Modeling' does not make you think of photographing advertisements.

... Hearing "Flash" has no sexual connotation.

... You know exactly why the Disney sequels suck.

... You know what PSD, MOV, AVI, and AEP files are.

... Tarzan has the greatest animated musculature ever.

... Not going to sleep at night isn't unusual.

... You hate X-sheets, but you know if you don't use them, it will all fall apart.

... a hole puncher costs you 500$

... You can see the brushstrokes in Ratigan's cape as he moves and changes layers

... People want you to draw them.

... People act like your career choice is awesome, but you know they are thinking "Where the hell is the money in animation?"

... You never want to hear how many individual hairs were rendered in Sully fur, or feathers on Chicken Little... ever again.

... When Mo-Cap doesn't count... but the tweaking does, no matter what James Cameron says.

... CGI is not as easy as people think it is.

... Neither is timing out good lip sync.

... There is no greater joy than watching what you just drew nonstop for a month (or more) come to life.

... Someone asks you what you thought of an animated film and you comment on the quality of animation.

... You think Fantasia is one of the best animated films ever despite your friends moaning that it has a soundtrack of classical music.

... You watch a cartoon on TV, start noticing repeated frames or backgrounds, and get annoyed by them.

... You know Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas .... OR....Coraline.

... You want Tim Curry, Keith David, or Jim Cummings to do a voice in a film of yours because they are just brilliant.

... You want to cry when you hear the words ''it's good but can you just change this one motion...''

... You say you do animation and your friends who don't do it say ''Are you mad? how can you stand drawing that much?''

... You try to be sneaky in using repeated/held frames hoping nobody notices...

... You spend a lot of time waiting for rendering.

... Someone looks at your completed scene, says "That's all you've bee doing for these past weeks?" and then you have to explain how animation works.... again.

... You have no social life when animating during crunch time.

... If you have a strong story, you can make a compelling film no matter the medium (2D/3D).

... Anything.... literally anything... can happen.


So with that, I hope to get in one more post before SIGGRAPH. If not, look for the post afterwards to describe all the awesomeness of the week. :-) 

Oh, and on a side note if anyone reads this. 
Does anyone know about how long it would take to send a postcard from Vancouver to Italy?
I'm curious to know if it would reach it's destination before I get back home.