The Boardie Cycle

I believe there are two types of Boarding, neither of which has a monopoly on the 'should be' market.
The first is Group Boarding. This will usually start with a friend telling another friend about the Board, and they enjoy it together. They tell each other when they ask questions, they talk about their favorite writers, and responses. They may even only read the Board when the fellow boardie is around.
The next step in the Boarding process is the Self Boarding. This happens when one, or both, friends decide that the occasional/recreational Board reading doesn't satisfy. They find themselves reading the Board during class, at home, instead of homework, going to sleep, eating, and in extreme cases (I plead the fifth) class. To them the Board is like a cup of coffee (or some other very addictive morning ritual) in the morning, and when they are done it isn't enough. They send themselves into the marvelous archives, acquainting themselves with writers of previous eras, and getting to know the earlier lives (Board lives that is) of their favorite writers today. The beginning of this period is marked by a flood of questions, while as time goes on the questions peter out or die all together because werf now has read the archives, and recognizes the full splendor of Google. Somewhere in this time is also when werf decided to become a writer, and thinks this is the highest station that werf can ever aspire to. The Board has now become an integral and irreplaceable part of werf's life. Werf cannot even comprehend what life was like before the Board; werf constantly thinks about werf's classes in terms of the Board, every relationship is thought of in terms of the Board, and werf then begins to move into phase three, which is actually a modified form of phase one.
The Board can no longer be held within werf. Everywhere werf goes the Board leaks out of werf, no one can come in contact with werf without hearing about the Board and/or being referenced to either "ask it to the Board" or "There was a question about that on the Board...". Some people are driven away from werf (Ambrosia) because werf cannot give up the Board, while others are drawn to werf because through werf's nearly constant reading of the Board werf has gained a new repertoire of witty sayings , and abundant personality. Starting the cycle all over again by introducing new people into the boardie ranks who will then follow relatively the same pattern of events.
This is like growing up...everyone has their own experiences, but some things are almost universal.