You Know NaNoWriMo's Eaten Your Soul When....

...you have a panic attack over your login not working the minute after the site updates. Then you panic more when TWITTER fails, making it impossible for you to TWEET about your PANIC.
PANIC!

I had that saaaaame reaction.
And also, suddenly we're all donors.
Gotta say, I'm diggin' the halo while it lasts.

I like this bit: 1340.748% of Wrimos have donated, raising $84,118.0

Exact same reaction for me too. I was completely flipping out.

You Know NaNoWriMo's eaten your soul when it's still more than 20 days until November, yet you spend hours on the forums anyways.

...when you wait for over 12 hours for the boards to come back

Definitely had that panic attack. My boyfriend was like O___________O, and even more so when I was like jumping up and down in delight when I finally could log in.

...you interrupt your paper writing sessions to refresh the NaNo site, and one of those refreshes works
...you're still awake at 2am just to witness the relaunch
...you're squealing and grinning like an idiot because YOUR SITE IS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF NANO HOLY SHDOFUSDFI

...When you stay up til 2am on a weeknight, hyperventilating on Twitter about the relaunch.

...you've been refreshing the page continuously throughout the day, waiting anxiously for the re-launch.
...you're barely able to repress the urge to squeal loudly, which would wake up the other sleeping people in your house, because you're so excited when the site is FINALLY RE-LAUNCHED YES!

You dropped that cat when you refreshed the page and it looked different. Then woke everyone up in the house to announce the good news.
I had the panic attack, it took me forever to log in.

I woke up at 2 am and checked the site. No change
... Then 3 am
Then 4 am
Then 5 am

Finally at 6am British time the site looked all shiny and new!!

-When you spent all day waiting impatiently for the site to relaunch, complaining to various friends.
-When you interrupted a sleepover to refresh the sight, breaking parental rules, and freaked out when the sight was different.
-When you had a panic attack after realizing that you only had 21 more days to prepare before Nano.

When you cried tears of joy at the sight of the shiny new nano site. *best thing to happen all day!*
When all of your friends avoid hanging out with you because they know you'll just talk about nano or chris baty, or nano AND chris baty... and it's still only October.
And when you really should be working on that paper that's due tomorrow, but instead you're in the nano forums. *cough*

When you spend three hours stalking the forums but start to feel bad about posting stuff because not enough people are also stalking the forums.

Haha! Exactly! I feel conspicuous, like people will wake up in a few hours and be like, "Who's the weirdo that spammed the forums at 3am?"

XD

...it's only October and you just keep going through your notes, outlines, character sketches and wishing it was November 1 and you're itching to put in some brief prose but know it's a no-no.

...and checking that counter on the front page to see just how long is left!

I was so happy to see everything all new and ready to go

...advertise to your friends about NaNoWriMo and try to make them sell their souls to it too, even though November is still far away from starting.

I think people on facebook are going to hate my spam eventually, haha.

... When the forums tell you that "You haven't created your novel yet" and you groan because it makes it sound so easy. 50,000 words don't come together on their own, you know! [/intentional misinterpretation]

...you're nostalgic over the forum bugginess.
...you squee and clap when first thing you do after getting online is load NaNo and it's all shiny-new!
...you've been tweeting impressions with the hashtag #NaNorelaunch.
...you're sad there's not more in the Reference Desk yet.
...you coaxed someone over to the NaNo side prior to relaunch (even if he's not going for the full 50k; I think I broke his poor brain by mentioning the rough number of pages 50k equals. Oops. >.>).