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YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have 27 well-labelled directories of sorted music files, and 382 miscellanious directories starting with New Folder (1), New Folder (2), ....
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... the promos and sweeps are way more interesting than the music
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you feel the need to play the disclaimer-drop before you lapse into a cursing fit, even when you're not on the air
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... whenever you get hungry, you start thinking of really long remixes to play during which you could eat a full meal
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have at least one directory of music that you can't remember ever having listened to
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you hear a broadcast station go off the air, and your panic mode says "crap, server death! refresh refresh refresh AAARGGGHHH!!"
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you plan all non-gaming activities for the same night you DJ, because you're paranoid of screwing up your post-show playlist
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you don't see the irony in having hundreds of dedicated fans yet you're still slaving two jobs and drive a $500 piece of crap.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you always wonder when the transition will happen where you're putting more hours into the net-station than you are your RL job
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you log in regularly for six days straight and no-one notices you, then you skip two days and everyone has a coronary over it
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you're fully aware that you are 100 times more talented than any of the morning-show jocks in your broadcast area, but you're a data-jock who never learned how to kiss enough corporate ass to actually make money doing this.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you can't wait to "work" on the holidays
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you chuckle when you can plainly hear your local broadcast DJ's distaste for the music they play, while all you have to do is shut your request line down and it's smooooth sailin'!
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you (buffer) are (buffer) still (buffer) tuned (buffer) in (buffer buffer buffer)
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you want to hurt people every time someone messages you asking where your avatar is, because you've been announcing it after every song.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you are still an "amateur" DJ after 10 years straight of doing this gig
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have a bookmark directory in your web browser filled with hundreds of internet stations, none of which you've ever listened to.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have 79 versions, releases, and remixes of a single song, but you've never had or heard the radio edit.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have recurring nightmares of server death and tell-hell.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you score a 2-hour Skype interview with one of the top executives in the gaming industry, and you're still in your underwear.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you receive music CD's for christmas, and think "damnit I could've used more underwear, I've had the 3 good songs on this album since 8 months before it was released."
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you instantly have a heart attack when someone from your org calls your cell phone
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you laugh insanely when you watch your friends try to start up their own station group under the premise that it must be "totally easy".
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you've completely switched format and demo 3 times in 5 years, because you grew completely sick of an entire genre
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you can pee, ice-water your face, nuke a pizza slice, refill a vodka drink, chat with your roommates, and reorg the next 20 songs on the PL to fill requests, all within the space of a 4 minute song.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you see an unpronouncable name like "Depremeounousounolu" in vicinity and immediately begin praying that they don't make a request or win a contest.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF.... every time you totally screw the pooch on the air is when your org director just tuned in and missed the totally pristine first 3 hours of your show.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you've ever spent a full hour toting up your follow-up DJ only to find out they've cancelled and are being covered by someone else.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... everyone in the world knows how bad your smoker's cough is because you keep leaving your damn mic on.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... the one time the server goes completely down is the day your entire board & tech staff are at Dragon*Con with phones off.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you know what it's like to panic over a server disaster for 2 straight hours, and the moment you finally find a board member or tech to fix it, it goes up and runs great all by itself.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you know full well the dilemma from someone bugging you to say their name on the air. Whether you do or not, it's a 50/50 chance that they'll either stop bugging you, or they will NEVER stop bugging you.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you've ever had to explain to a l33t-sp34king 13-year old that the connection problem is on their end, and they might want to not download gigs of porn while trying to stay tuned in over a comcast connection.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... your competitors are all half your age and convinced that it IS, in fact, a competition.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you answer to your net handle in real life (guilty!)
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... everyone is convinced that if you just barely stumble over one 13-syllable word, you must be completely drunk off your ass, and for some reason that's just hilarious.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... everyone is convinced that you're more entertaining when you're drunk, to the point that if lie and you say you are, you can act normal and people will still think it's more entertaining.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you receive a complaint about the MMO game you're shoutcasting from under an expectation that you must work for the company.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you laugh with vindictive glee when you hear how crappy all the webcasts of broadcast stations sound
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you are on the air every holiday, and love it.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you use your "radio voice" when you're simply voice-chatting online.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you have a notepad list of songs that you need to crop from at least 20 seconds of dead weight lead-ins and lead-outs.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you are well into your thirties and have been hit on by a 13-year old countless times
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you can't stand the sight of ".wav" unless it's under conversion to ".mp3"
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you've been emotionally struggling with the concept of switching to aac+ for the past 2 years
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you don't know whether to introduce yourself at parties...with your net-name or your real name.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you used to totally own all at this MMOG, and now you're not even sure you could even level once, yet your character is seventy times more wealthy.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... nothing sounds right to you unless it's normalized to -6dB
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you take a vacation day from your real job to work all day on sweeps and promos for your net station
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you hear another DJ in your group use your catch phrase and you actually get ticked because they didn't ask you first.
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... your email inbox is filled with sample songs you've asked for 2 years ago and never got around to downloading
YOU MIGHT BE IN (INTERNET) RADIO IF... you laugh at audio CD's as though they were 8-track tapes.
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