I programmed pretty heavily in Common Lisp from about 2000-2003 and I got over the parentheses too after a few months. I can't say I ever really came to love the syntax though. I always thought of it as the price I had to pay for macros. I did get pretty tired of the religious zeal of a lot of lispers though. Too many insist that lisp is the "right" way to design a language and refuse to see it as the collection of design compromises it is, like every other language.