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Just as a heads up, I am currently working on a new layout for Eateggs.com, but it’s still a little ways off. In the mean time, things are going to get more ugly before they get pretty. Bear with me. If things don’t work, you’re welcome to let me know, but odds are I’ll figure it out myself sooner or later. Although ugly, hopefully things will continue to be quasi-functional, and we’ll all get out on the other side looking a little better. =)

Just in case you’re interested or somehow don’t know, this is what I have on tap for the summer:

I’ll be moving back to Cheyenne and living w/ the ‘rents. I’ll be doing landscaping for Heartland Home Builders during the day, and I’ll probably wait tables at night (I’m not sure about the latter).

I have two weekend trips planned: one to hike Long’s peak, and one to come up to Montana and hang out for a couple days with William and anyone else who’s willing to see me. =)

I will also be going backpacking in the Wind River Range (outside of Pinedale, WY) for a week with my dad and one of his friends sometime around the first week in August.

At the end of August I’ll pack my bags, hop on a plane, and head to Bangkok. That will be my summer.

And by party all night, I mean did homework all night, ‘cuz that’s always such a party– especially when that homework happens to be the history of ancient Rome. On the upside, of course, I was writing about persecuting a group of people considered to be morally depraved and undesirable– Christians, of course.

Ha ha. I’m just kidding. Well, not really– that’s what my paper actually is about: I explore one document that deals with the persecution of Christians in second-century Rome. Why were the persecuted? Well… just read the paper if you’re interested. Although it’s about fifteen pages shorter than it should be to do “justice” to even this single document, much less the subject of the persecution of Christians in Rome … but what ev.

http://www.eateggs.com/school/2005.04.20minucuisoctavius.pdf

Bleck. I need bed!

*sneeze*

I always feel obligated to preface any statements or posts about business majors with a qualification that not all who have selected “business” as their major are what I refer to as “business majors.” I know quite a few individuals studying business who are generous, kind and soft-spoken individuals who entirely defy my stereotype. If, therefore, you are a person studying business and so-happen to value people more than money, or are able to form a complete sentence without the use of a three-letter acronym, please don’t think that the following concerns you. It’s just my observation on a select group of students who spend an excessive amount of time in the computer labs, loudly talking about their “profit margins per shoe.”

I just happened to overhear a conversation between two senior business majors (involving a dislike for the Salt Lake City airport and something to the effect of “yeah, actually I have to take this one group out for dinner, but there’s no way I’m taking my other group out for anything“), that so perfectly exemplified everything I despite about business majors that I felt compelled to post it immediately:

Dramatis Personae

Random Business Major #1, called Matt

Random Business Major #2, called John

Scene 1

Matt: “Yeah, I gotta pick up some odd jobs over the next few weeks.”

John: “Heh, no kidding. I was hoping for a little graduation bankroll, but I’m not sure if that’s going to come in.”

Matt: “Well, I was thinking that maybe I should just send out some graduation announcements, ‘cuz you know people always send money.”

John: “Funny you should say that, because I just sent out a bunch for that expressed purpose.”

Matt: “And you’re hoping to get a good return on investment?”

John: (laughing) “Yeah, I’m expecting to get some good R. O. I.! It’s good business, you know?”

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At this point I left to compile this incredible conversation (and have done so, more or less, verbatim). It’s conversations like these that leads me to believe that these so-called “business majors” are somehow sub-human. It’s as though they were all born as human beings but either have lost or have never had any humanity. This conversation illustrates two key signs of a business major.

The first is an unabated greed, especially for material possessions. In this case, are two specimens are both happy to write graduation announcements so that relatives they barely know and certainly don’t care about feel compelled to send them money.

How despicable.

The second is their particular affinity for the use of economics-related acronyms, such as ROI or GPD, and economic terms, such as “production capacity” and “profit margins,” in every day conversation. It seems like, since these worthless acronyms are all that business majors have been given for “education” over the last four years, they somehow affirm themselves by their repeated use.

How pretentious.