Ander Mackinnon - 12/08/00 21:06:47
My URL:/Athens/Oracle/5390
My Email:jalove@ukans.edu
Your situation: I'm supposed to write an essay, but I'm procrastinating.
The worst part: I'm also in a room with four people playing Time Splitters.
The cause of your situation: I didn't finish the essay yesterday 'cause I played Final Fantasy IX about 9 hours.
The effect of your situation: Well, my group probably hates me now....
Why this situation is significant: It has a direct impact on my grades, for example.
How can we help: Send me the program for the play Buried Child.

Comments:
Mostly I'm just bouncing around the Internet. Thought I'd stop in and say "hi."

Ander Mackinnon - 12/01/00 00:16:14
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Oracle/5390/
My Email:jalove@ukans.edu
Your situation: I feel terribly contrived.
The worst part: I'm also rather...threatened? I think that word might work.
The cause of your situation: I don't remember, it's been so long.
The effect of your situation: Listlessness, mostly.
Why this situation is significant: It's not: that's the point.
How can we help: I've got Liz to console me. Not that it helps.

Comments:
Remember, people: performing artists are not responsible for any stereotypes their fans may produce. They're people, too...the artists, I mean.

Funny - 10/16/00 20:20:58
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Academy/7583/activities/joefy1.html
My Email:funny_diebarbarin@hotmail.com
Your situation: I hate all my homework
The worst part: there isn't going to be any German classes next semster
The cause of your situation: how can I complain about a class I won't have?
The effect of your situation: I'll forget everything I have managed to learn in the last four and a half years
Why this situation is significant: how can I get my minor if they don't offer the required classes
How can we help: nuke WSU

Comments:
Love ya all. See, Ander, I visit sometimes.

Ander Mackinnon - 09/20/00 02:22:15
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Oracle/5390/
My Email:jalove@ukans.edu
Your situation: Note the new email address.
The worst part: While I made it up with FF7 intact, my Address Book wasn't so lucky.
The cause of your situation: Has anybody noticed that I'm the only one to sign this thing anymore?
The effect of your situation: I feel like there's a resource being wasted here....
Why this situation is significant: Oh, it's not. Really. Don't bother yourself.
How can we help: I don't know; I just like reminiscing.

Comments:
I can tell I'm jading when the intro to the Dumping Ground sounds stupid, since I wrote it originally. Of course, the previous sentence sounds stupid to me too, so I suppose I'm okay.

Ander Mackinnon - 08/22/00 20:15:43
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Oracle/5390/
My Email:jalove@ukans.edu
Your situation: I'm the first one to update in college!
The worst part: Um, right. There's only me here, practically.
The cause of your situation: I'm isolated by a crowd of people I don't know.
The effect of your situation: I can connect with no more than five people now.
Why this situation is significant: Um, there's no changing it.
How can we help: Who knows.

Comments:
Looks like I'm the first person to turn here since we all went to college. The thing is that only a few people are anywhere near me. One of them is almost too much trouble. Another isn't really one of the people who knows me--we're basically acquaintan es. The last one's just this guy, you know? So I don't know what to do. Talk here, I guess. I probably ought to go out and socialize now, or something.

Cool-City Dictator - 08/11/00 21:10:11
My URL:http://welcome.to/watermelonworld
My Email:watermelonishous@hotmail.com
Your situation: Talking to a guy in Scotland on the IM
The worst part: He's a total jerk just like all the rest of them!!!!
The cause of your situation: I'm a complete freak
The effect of your situation: It's made me a bigger freak
Why this situation is significant: I thought he was nice
How can we help: Declare war on Scotland

Comments:
This guy likes to joke around a lot. He joked a little too much the other day and asked me out. After trying to get an answer out of me for several minutes he said he was joking. I don't want to go out with him. For one thing, it's completely ludicrous to date someone in a foreign country. You just don't joke about things like that. What a dope. WHAT A JERK! Looks like I've come in contact with another arrogant insensitive bum. What's new?

Toni - 06/24/00 22:52:49
My URL:http://www.travel.to/mentos
My Email:johncall@swbell.net
Your situation: Distress over the course of the rest of my life
The worst part: Suffering from chronic injuries that hinder the progress of all my planning.
The cause of your situation: I'm going away for six weeks to dance intensively while suffering from subluxation degeneration in the neck and thoracic spine and pulled muscles in the neck, shoulders and upper back.
The effect of your situation: I'm in PAIN!!
Why this situation is significant: Going away to this program could determine whether I have a career next year or whether I'm just bullshitting my way through college in rinky-dinky Wichita.
How can we help: You could give me a magical pill that would cure all my pain. Oh yeah, it doesn't exist!

Comments:
I don't know if anyone even comes here anymore. But, this is a good plays to holler "Oh, woe is me," without being told I'm melodramatic. Sometimes I think life would be alright if only I was invincible. Too bad, so sad. Cry me a river.

Rosa - 03/14/00 23:24:51
My Email:rosa_st@yahoo.com
Your situation: my boyfriend doesn´t want to meet me
The worst part: He´s making me feel stupid
The cause of your situation: him
The effect of your situation: I´m said all the time
Why this situation is significant: Been depressed for so long
How can we help: cheer me up and tell me what to say to him or how to dump

Comments:
my last boyfriend cheated on me. this one doesn´t want to meet me after school and he never says hi until I have said hi to him. he treats me well and he´s really nice the few moments we´ve had together and I want more of that time. now i´m thinking about moving on because hes not doing anything for me, but I don´t want to hurt him. i know he likes me, he´s just too shy. should I give him time or just walk away?

Funny dieBarbarin - 01/17/00 23:35:16
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Academy/7583
My Email:funny_diebarbarin@hotmail.com
Your situation: I want to skip Spring
The worst part: Valentine's Day... no, Prom... no, finding a walking partner... I dunno
The cause of your situation: Hormones
The effect of your situation: I don't have a sig. other
Why this situation is significant: I'm stuck stag for all three events
How can we help: Who knows, mayhaps arrange it so that I'm guarenteed NOT to be stuck with Jared A for any of the three

Comments:
Listen to me whine, I'm such a whiner, I do have my Prom dress pattern chosen, but haven't chosen the color. I don't think it really matters, I'm not going with anyone so I don't have to worry about matching.

Ander Mackinnon - 11/29/99 00:58:20
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Oracle/5390/
My Email:loves@feist.com
Your situation: I'm trying to update my page, but it's gotten too big to handle.
The worst part: Everything's in a weird location, and many files are duplicates of others I can't find!
The cause of your situation: This is my own fault, of course.
The effect of your situation: The P.o.P. will be offline for several days (Read: weeks).
Why this situation is significant: I can only imagine the e-mail I'm gonna get for this one.
How can we help: I have no idea.

Comments:
Does anybody here have any comprehension of the sheer magnitude of this most nightmarish task I've undertaken? Seriously!

This is just the sort of thing that spontaneously occurs to me. - 08/09/99 07:37:26
My URL:It's Ander, by the way.
My Email:loves@feist.com
Your situation:

You think you have problems?

Comments:
I was just muttering to myself about psychological stuff when the above occurred to me. It's entirely true, too-- I always thought everyone I knew was incredibly happy and content. Let's not forget, though: this is the Dumping Ground. People put their b>biggest stresses here, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are constantly, non-stop plagued by them. In a nutshell, this is the haven for people at their lowest ebb.

Jeli - 08/08/99 04:39:34
My Email:JeliBean2@juno.com
Your situation: My whole life
The worst part: This weekend
The cause of your situation: saw a movie
The effect of your situation: date got grounded
Why this situation is significant: met date's sister's ex
How can we help: can't. Make the calender stop, perhaps

Comments:
Yes, I met his sister's ex. Who, much to my suprise, is a very nice guy. I even tried to make my date jealous, but he knows me to well. Or maybe the fact that this kid is only 15. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's alright. I recommend that a l of you see a forbidden movie so that you get grounded, too. By the way, I'm proud to say that I've become a bad influence... it's a very big accomplishment that took many centuries to perfect. I intend to currupt the minds of the young...Sorry. I thi k I'd better stop now. You see, these things happen when the person you are seeing is a sleepy head who goes to bed at normal times, and you're nocturnal. Take this as a lesson, my dear friends... Okay. I'm done now. Have a happy day-

Funny - 07/10/99 01:40:46
My URL:http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Academy/7583
My Email:a_neff@hotmail.com
Your situation: I hate fish
The worst part: I'm only allowed to eat fish.
The cause of your situation: The fact that I'm a dolphin
The effect of your situation: I want to be a fat green cow
Why this situation is significant: Dad just left
How can we help: Are you Charter???

Comments:
Seriously, though, I just saw my old friend Serinity today and in the process of reminicing I realized just how much everyone from grade school had changed. It's kind of like the story in the Offspring's song "The Kids Aren't Right".

AM - 07/09/99 06:48:24
My Email:loves@feist.com
Your situation: I had these great ideas in my head that seem to flee every time I try to record them.
The worst part: I completely lost at least three paragraphs.
The cause of your situation: Overanticipation, perhaps?
The effect of your situation: It's gonna take a bit longer to record my views, now....
Why this situation is significant: This could be the end of all unnecessary controversy.
How can we help: Listen, think, and act.

Comments:
If I intend to do this, I must do it now. There is no time for a long soul-search session. I do have some comments, though.

I have to admit, it came as a bit of a surprise--not the knowledge itself, but the revelation of the knowledge. I had known, subconsciously, most of it beforehand. A few bits threw me a loop, but nothing so groundshattering that I had not at least co sidered the fact. It was just such a... well, clever thing to do that it left me reeling. I envy the insight that it took to do what happened, although I doubt the creator of this agenda even realized the full significance of the action itself. Oh, it as realized, all right, but just not in this light.

Ander Mackinnon - 07/06/99 06:47:49
My URL:/Athens/Oracle/5390/
My Email:loves@feist.com
Your situation: My cursed introversion.
The worst part: I can't talk confortably to anyone I've *ever* had a crush on.
The cause of your situation: I'm guessing, just poor luck.
The effect of your situation: Extreme discomfort to the point of anguish.
Why this situation is significant: Never mind the fact that this basically consigns me to pacifism in the romance department.
How can we help: You can't. I'm just whining.

Comments:
I see the guestbooks are working again.