You Know You're A Roswell Fan If...
... You have no interest in a cute guy from school until he
heals you with a touch and tells you he's an alien and suddenly
you fall in love with him.
... You go out and buy Dido's album No Angel because
Roswell's theme song, "Here With Me" is on it.
...You start watching Dawson's Creek to try and see the
episodes Jason Behr guest starred in.
...You start watching Xena: Warrior Princess to try and see the episodes Shiri Appleby guest starred in.
...You rent any movie because a Roswell star played in it (or in the case of Disturbing Behavior: 2 Roswell stars, one Roswell executive producer).
...You get into a fight with anyone about Jason Behr being the cutest guy on earth.
...You argue with a friend over who's cuter: Jason Behr or Brendan Fehr.
...You refuse to talk to anyone who thinks Katherine Heigl is even slightly overweight.
...You cried when Roswell Online was hacked into and destroyed.
... You are more paranoid than most whenever you see the
sheriff.
... You lose your diary and suddenly you begin accusing every one
of stealing it to learn about your alien friend.
... You search the Internet for anything Roswell related.
... You think of Liz and Max's hug every time you hear "I
Love You" by Sarah McLachlan.
... You wish you were an alien so you could clean your clothes by
waving your hand instead of doing the laundry.
... You get a headache and wish you had a secret power to make it
go away.
... Your mom (or dad or best friend) gets an injury and you offer
to heal it for them, as long as they don't turn you over to the
government.
... You're terrified of talking to the new school counselor.
... Any time you see a hand print you wonder if Max, Isabel, or
Michael are around.
... You try to heat up coffee by using your hands.
...You try to listen to a CD by holding it up to your ear.
... You refuse to date anyone named Kyle.
... You shake the vending machine and hope that everything falls.
... You suddenly develop a craving for Tabasco Sauce.
... People keep giving you UFO related books to read.
...You try to find a copy of Among Us by James Atherton.
... You look up Marathon, Texas, on a map to see if it really
exists.
...You get caught speeding, and tell the officer that you have a
weak bladder and had to pee, to avoid getting arrested.
... You write/read Roswell fan fiction.
... You try and figure out why Max would tell Liz he is an alien,
but not tell her why they were all going to Texas in "285
South."
... You think of Max, Isabel, and Michael every time someone says
the words, "alien" or "secret."
... You wish you could get into other people's dreams and play
jokes on them.
... You dream about the show and or its characters.
... You used to hate Wednesday's but now it's your favorite day
of the week.
... You suddenly decide vanilla ice cream is your favorite.
... You tell your non-Roswell watching friends they are
weird for not watching and loving the show as much as you do.
...You insist on telling everyone Roswell is the next X-Files.
... You get a haircut like your favorite Roswell
character.
... You wish you could wave your hand over your enemy's test and
change all the answers to wrong ones.
... You wish you could read Faulkner's The Hamlet as fast
as Isabel read Among Us.
... You read James Joyce's Ulysses to see if "what
incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that
passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything
and in reality not knowing their own minds" is really on
page 655 (it is, by the way, if anyone's curious).
... You start watching Win Ben Stein's Money.
...You start laughing anytime someone mentions The View.
... You start dressing like your favorite character from the
show.
... You are convinced that there are aliens disguised as humans
everywhere.
... You start telling people that aliens are not bad.
... You vow to never watch Independence Day, Alien,
or Men in Black again, because they are discriminating
against aliens, even though you loved them before watching Roswell.
... You begin taking art classes in order to start drawing
Michael's dome.
... You suddenly decide you'd like to be a waitress.
... You start carrying your house key in the top of your thermos.
... You decide the chain lock on your front door is not nearly
good enough!
... You have every episode taped.
... You wonder when all the Roswell merchandise will hit
stores.
... You were one of the first people to log onto the Internet to
search for or build Roswell pages.
... You can name every Roswell episode title off the top
of your head.
... You drive your friends crazy by telling them about each
episode in detail.
... You are afraid that Kate Foster from First Wave will
discover Max's secret.
...You try to find a necklace with the symbol from Riverdog on it.
...You think you can start skipping classes and not get into trouble.
...You don't question where everyone's parents are when they're going on out of state road trips and breaking into hotel rooms.
...You begin wondering about the level of security at your local hospital.
...If any episode has ever made you cry, or laugh so hard you cried.
...Instead of counting the days until your birthday, you count the days until the next new episode of Roswell airs.
...People start talking about government conspiracies and aliens whenever they see you.
...You don't have a home page, just a Roswell page.
...You name any of your children after Roswell characters (or after the actors/actresses who play them.)
...You know every line of every episode, and play the episodes for your friends just to demonstrate your wondeful memory.
...People refer to you as, "That girl who watches Roswell."
...You look up the character's names in the phone book, and get excited if you find one.
...You go to a rave with the hopes of being arrested like Liz and Alex were in "Heatwave."
...You start out every journal entry by stating your first and last name.
...You decide to participate in a Sweat Lodge Ceremony just to see what happens.
...You kiss someone you like and use the excuse that it was to calm them down.
...You buy more than 1 tape or CD because one of the songs was played in a Roswell episode.
...You buy every magazine that even mentions Roswell in it.
...You stare up at the night sky, searching for the V-shaped
constellation.
... You sit around making up a list of how to know if you're a Roswell
fan.
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...You take your family on vacation to New Mexico and drive down 285 South just to say you did it.
...You take your family on vacation to New Mexico and drive down 285 South in search of a "nookie motel."
...You have a picture of yourself standing next to mile marker 67, smiling proudly.
...You've been to West Covina, California.
...You've sent letters and or gifts to any of the cast members.
...You can't watch a certain episode without crying (i.e. "The Balance" or "Toy House).
...You're involved in any type of Roswell RPG.
...Your weekly "To Do" list consists of 1. Discussing the last episode of Roswell that aired with your online friends. 2. Updating your Roswell website. 3. Writing the next chapter of your current Roswell fanfic and 4. Making a new Roswell desktop wallpaper for your computer.
...You decide to start up a "Sunshine Committee" to investigate...er, WELCOME the new girl at school.
...You grab every opportunity avaliable to quote the show.
...You look forward to Mondays now.
...Wednesdays have lost their meaning.
...You talk to your online Roswell friends more than you talk to your own family.
...You watch all the reruns even though you have every episode taped.
...You record all the reruns in case your other copies get lost.
...You stay up half the night trying to see your favorite Roswell star on one of the late shows or in an old movie, even though you have to work early the next morning.
...You've started recording/watching other WB shows just to catch the new Roswell promo.
...You own a copy of every Roswell High book that's been released and constantly call your local bookstore demanding to know when the next one's due out.
...You record every episode on 2 VCR's in case one of them breaks down. Hey, if they both do, you can always drive to your parents house and pick up the copy you made them record for you.
...You find yourself adding more red things to your wardrobe because Alex likes red.
...You search your house for tiny video cameras and listening devices (this paranoia increases if you are also an X-Phile).
...You personally threatened Pierce's life during "White Room."
...You giggle anytime someone says anything about "up north."
...You hear a song on the radio and you announce to your parents or friends or whoever you're with that, "This song reminds me sooo much of Max and Liz!"
...You mention Roswell on a school test, or in a paper.
...You glare at anyone who dares suggest that, "Roswell is just a show!"
...You can't watch "Sexual Healing" alone...someone must be there with you to remind you to breathe.
...Anytime a waitress asks you what you want to drink, you respond, "Cherry cola, hold the arsenic."
...You've ever put Tabasco sauce in your drink just to see how people will react.
...When you're depressed or moody, you now find yourself inexplicably listening to the Counting Crows.
...You watched "Crazy" for the first time and have such an addiction to Alex you said aloud, "'Scream 2?' 'Knotting Hill?' Could we *BE* anymore compatible?"
...You accept everything in "Roswell Elementary" as truth. Mr. Raddish is real. It's just a fact.
...You refuse to speak to anyone named Tess.
...You suspect your boyfriend has been replaced by a shape-shifting alien.
...You've even *considered* trying chocolate cake with Tabasco sauce.
...During "Crazy" when Pierce pulls up in the car beside Alex, you yelled, "Don't you *get* in that car!"
...You started laughing during "Tess, Lies and Videotape" while Max is putting up a sign in the UFO museum that reads, "Trust No One." Then you wondered where the "Deny Everything" sign was. (Okay, this is more of an X-Files thing, but I couldn't resist).
...You do an Internet search for the chords to "Love Kills" and "Hurt by Love."