For the love of god, someone tell me I'm not alone in this...

Every time I get XP, expecially when a node of mine gets ching!ed or I get my vote bonus, I feel like I have to hit the escape key and save my game so I don't lose it. I know this is because of my gazillions of hours playing adventure games, but after the hundredth time you'd think I'd break myself of the habit...