You know you're a designer when...

(I got this from Verso Magazine, sort of our Design program's official magazine. Some of you "non-designers" might not get some of these.)

1. People think that all you do is "make things pretty"
2. You shudder at the words "desktop publishing"
3. The sight of Comic Sans makes you cringe.
4. You have tried to "Apple-Z" your life. (the equivalent of Ctrl-Z on a PC)
5. The word "recto" doesn't make you giggle.
6. You have become an official Apple representative.
7. Arbitrary numbers like 10.2, 1280, 1024, 72 and 7 are just as much a part of your vernacular as are the words 'like,' 'eh,' and 'uhhhhh.'
8. You explain to others the difference between hyphens, em dashes and en dashes.
9. You buy CDs not for the music, but for the design of the case.
10. You feel paper.
11. You know that Quark is not something from space.
12. You dream in 256 web safe colours.
13. You pass your time in the car by counting all the typefaces you can name on store signs.
14. You spend literally hours a day drawing... the letter A.
15. Your boss' 15-year-old kid couldn't do what you do, damn it!
16. You know Helvetica when you see it, and that's not Helvetica.
17. You wish you could find that lipstick in Pantone 1805
18. You're really bothered by that Canon printer commercial that keeps saying you can replace the "red" ink seperately.
19. You know that K means black.
20. You develop a heart murmur from all the sleepless nights and malnourished days that design perfectionism causes.