What do you assign to Mordor?

[Hakon]

I assign family to mordor or at least my own family.

[Hakon]

I assign waiting in line for close to 3 hours at a book signing and then having to run about 35 blocks in order to catch the train and all when you have school the next day.

[Brinniel]

I assign bright, talented people who die too young.

One of the theatre students at my school lost his battle to leukemia yesterday. I never met him, so it really shouldn't have much effect on me compared to others who actually knew him, but it doesn't stop me from feeling absolutely awful about it. Some of my classmates were friends of his, one didn't come to class but I later saw her in tears. It really hits hard to witness those grieving and I can't help but think about all the people he left a mark on and what his life was before this and how it should still be. One of my teachers informed us that he was signed up to be in our class but had to take a leave of absence due to the return of his cancer. My class is dance improv and is the course where I know my classmates best due to the interactions required and the intimate environment. I think my main feeling is regret that I never had the chance to know this student who was liked by so many and experience what kind of person he really was. It is in situations like this that makes one appreciate the people around them so much more. Not just friends, but classmates, co-workers, people who you may have the most insignificant interactions or brief conversations with, or even those who you simply pass by on the street or hallway everyday.

[Nerwen]

Brinn, that's so sad.

[Laurinquë]

Yes, that is horrible.

It reminds me of a girl I was familiar with at my volunteering centre. The doctors gave her an accidental overdose of anaesthetic after foot surgery and killed her. She was only 18 years old. I had never really known her at all, I might have run into her once or twice, but it was a shocking and awful experience. This girl wasn't actually very sick, her death was the sort of thing that could happen to any of us.

Dying whilst you're young and when no one is expecting it at all - that is a thing to assign to Mordor.

[Lindale]

I assign the pressure, self-inflicted and parent-inflicted, of my upcoming Law Aptitude Exam. It's on Sunday already.

[The Saucepan Man]

The office web filter, which has recently been updated and which has finally managed to work out how to block out the Barrow Downs forum.

I suspect that this may mean an end to my Werewolfing career, or at least require a major change to the way that I play ...