Author: Mark Egge

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

We re-arranged my room a little a couple days back: It’s been a great weekend (although I’m seven different flavors of sore right now). Yesterday was especially enjoyable. I took off with Mr. Ben (my R.A.) and Josh (one of my suite-mates) on a crazy hike up to Baldy peak. It would have been challenging […]

All I Ask of You

Ah– what a wonderful day. I slept through my 10:00 class, not waking up until ~1:00. Once up I went and ate some food, and then eventually joined in a game of ultimate and played for a couple hours on a wet, muddy field. After that I ate more food and eventually went to Assualt […]

As I was stupidly killing time in the computer lab this afternoon, I happened to come accross this blog: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ It’s written by an English speaking girl in occupied Iraq, and provides a small portion of “the other side of the story” that America is so sorely lacking. Reading her thoughts and experiences raises some […]

A New Direction

I came to a realization tonight that my schedule for the following semester, which leaves my evenings and weekends largely open, allows for the addition of one more thing. As I pondered this, there came two thoughts of things to fill the hours. Either 1) get a girlfriend or 2) get a second part time […]