Author: Mark Egge

Since I frequently include my blog in outside discussions, I figure it’s about time to include an outside discussion in my blog. Just because it’s interesting, here’s a bit of conversation from a work discussion about Walmart closing down a store because it threatened to become unionized:http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/news/international/walmart_canada/ Walmart is the embodiment of every abuse and […]

So here’s the challenge: for my T&C class everyone was given a short story, and instructed to write the ending. The real ending had been cut off. So we’ll bring our endings in and put them in a pile (along with the real ending) and read them aloud, and then we’ll try to figure out […]

Lies, I realize, are highly pragmatic. This realization came during a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, in which the main character, Billy, is a PTSD victim who survives many of the hardships in his life by creating a fanciful world that he escapes to. Although this is an extreme case, it’s illustrative of so […]

Come, Muse, and sing the song of journey. Sing ye of bright-eyed Odysseus,Man of Pain, setting sail for yonder Troy,Of Private Numeral, auspicious, would-beFather, setting sail for our desTroy.Glory and Pride of the Nation. Sing ye of new beginning: the breakingSun on that yonder horizon where allIs new, is bright, unknown! Integrity.Displacing the shadows of […]

Good heavens. I guess I learn something new every day. Today’s lesson: credit card companies are nasty things. So here was my mistake: in December, I paid off my tuition with my credit card, effectively maxing my card out at five grand or so. Over winter break I was thoroughly financially irresponsible (aside from $900 […]