BREAK

It's finally here, and as of now, I am still sitting in Manhattan waiting to go home. I have to work tomorrow morning, and then I'm headed back to spend time with people I miss quite a bit. I'm looking forward to it, a lot. It's been interesting seeing all the students pour out of Manhattan within a matter of hours. Me and Kevin are the only one's left at our house for the evening. Today we went and saw the new Harry Potter, which ended up being a great experience as we ran into some other fine gentlemen we knew there, like Paul Hughes, Brian Moore and Brad Wompler. And now I think we'll probably go to Hunam for a top notch Chinese dinner.

So even though most people have gone home already, the past day has been pretty alright. I can't wait to get home though. I haven't been back in far too long, and it's time. Time to rest, hang with friends, hookah, disc golf, and actually relax. Thank you God for supplying me with much needed breaks from stress, and with wonderful friends who make it all the more fun.

Enron

I'm writing an essay on Enron as a bureaucracy right now for one of my Sociology classes. I got bored of writing it for now, so I decided I might as well share some of my thoughts on it for anyone who may be interested.

To me, the Enron scandal was one of the greatest examples of greed that we have seen in the last ten years. The executives involved in the scandal were completely overtaken by the concept of profit and possessions. They literally did anything to ensure that "profit" was made, even if it involved illegally manipulating financial statements. As long as they could manipulate their statements and fool their investors, they were in good shape. Their end was inevitable, however. There was no possible way that Enron could have survived because of their lack of real cash, which they didn't have a lot of, of course. Eventually, it all had to come crashing down. The executives knew it was coming, so they sold their stock and got out. Six months after this, Enron is defunct, and thousands of employees and stockholders were left with nothing. The selfishness of a few crooks left thousands in the dust, wandering in the midst of the corporate world they once knew. Pretty incredible if you ask me. Selfishness in it's ideal form.