Hi. My name is Raina Olsen. I'm a freshman (actually right now I'm technically a sophmore, but it's still my first year so I feel like a freshman. That's the advantage of coming in with extra credit - confusion) at the University of Missouri-Columbia and I need a hobby. You know, one of those things that allows me to express myself and find something to do with what little free time I have.
I'm a computer/electrical engineering student, so those computers and programming and things of that sort interest me. So I thought, "why not make a homepage? I've done it before, and it was fun." The problem is, if I were to make a homepage with a picture of me, a picture of my goldfish, and a list of the classes I'm taking this semester, not very many people would visit it because, well, I don't have a goldfish , so it would be a tad boring for anyone with more than two brain cells. Since a homepage with only 3 hits a year (and likely all 3 of them from government sites) doesn't strike me as particularly fulfulling, I moved on to other ideas.
Then I thought, "why don't I start a club for all the people that are anti-social like me? We could have club meetings on Saturday nights, (but not too late, because we'd all want to get to bed early) and take field trips to places where people go OTHER than work and school." Then I realized the inherent problem in that one as well. After a few meetings, everyone would start getting social. They would then proceed to kick me out and become "The Drunken Orgy Partiers Club" or something like that.
After that, I was fresh out of ideas, so I asked my best friend if he had any ideas. He is an imaginary elephant, so his ideas were mainly concerned with elephant-y things, none of which struck me, human that I am, as very viable. He did, however make me so annoyed I started whispering at him to shut up. I was in the computer lab at the time, and everyone else in there glared at me and I thought "boy, THEY need to lighten up" and all of a sudden had the brighest idea I've ever had in my life. Why not start a homepage for anti-social people? That way they can continue in their anti-social ways, and still relax a little bit. Elly (my best friend) didn't like the idea much, but I decided to roll with it.
Next, I needed a name. My first idea was the Anti-Socialist page. "Naaaaa" I said to myself, "sound like it's supposed to be a 'we hate the communists' site or something." Then I rethought the idea. Anti-social people were around before Karl Marx, so we should get first crack at the name. And anyway, maybe that's what we really are anyway, anti-socialists. Screw the collective, every person for themselves, even if all the person wants is a quiet room where the people upstairs will maybe quit banging on the walls for 5 minutes!!!........ Plus I think one of the funnest things about being anti-social is, if you do happen to annoy someone, you can, frankly my dear, just not give a damn. So if I happen to annoy some socialists, or anyone else for that matter, who cares. So, The Anti-Socialist Page it was!!
And here we are today. (Well at least here you are today, I
wouldn't want to ruin your sense of anti-socialness by suggesting you're
sharing this experience with anyone.) What you'll find here is a strange
and
varied assortment of things that I think anti-social people would like.
Of course, since I don't know a lot of people.....I may be way off base,
but look around anyway and see if there's anything you like. If you,
yourself are one of the anti-socials and have any suggestions, comments,
or would just like to reach out and make some sort of contact for
once in your life, feel free to attempt to overcome your fear of the human
race and email me at
c741232@showme.missouri.edu.