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It’s really late.? I need to not be doing this shit, and I need to be in bed.

P.S.? I’m getting a cold

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Mmmmk,

Well, fellow bloggers, a new website is due to launch soon.? It’s called eXlinks, and will be "the ultimate, exponential link-swapping, site exploding system, and is completely free."?

Those who join early on will apparently have a competitive edge over those who wait, so joining now is definitely a good thing.

It sure doesn’t hurt to join, and (I think) they’re connected with BlogMad, so it should be a good deal :).? Correction- I don’t know… so don’t quote me on that, kthx.

Join eXlinks

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Did you know that in the state of New York, if your spouse owns, for example, a house, and you don’t jointly own it (like written out in black and white on the deed), you are shit out of luck and don’t really have any chance of claiming any part of ownership over the house if ever you two have a divorce?? It works that way with all property.

In California, on the other hand, once you are married, all assets are equally split 50/50 between husband and wife, no matter how much each of you actually brought to the marriage and no matter how much you earned and contributed during the marriage.

Of course, things will get messy when it comes to property that might not be directly linked to a specific owner, such as electronics, housewares, etc… and I’m pretty sure a pre-nup could take care of many, if not all, concerns over potential asset distribution in the event of a divorce.

Rather interesting, I thought.
Still… it’s grim.
I’d like to believe that marriage = true love, and true love = no need for any of the aforementioned business, but of course, it’s not always a puppies and rainbows fairy tale ending for everyone, even if one is completely blind to the fact until ten, twenty, or even thirty years later.? In the latter case, is it still better late than never?

Well I’ve really been meaning to blog more, but I just haven’t gotten around to it.

In fact at this very moment I am working on my very first, albeit short, paper of the semester.? It’s nothing big, just 600-1000 words for Intro to Ethics.? Topic?? Cultural Relativism.

My opinion on cultural relativism:? just because an action or practice is acceptable within a society or culture, it still does not make that action good.? I see Rachel’s point of view in The Elements of Moral Philosophy, where he basically? says (not quite against the idea of cultural relativism, though seeming to want to disprove it) that at the root of an action that one society sees as deplorable and heinous and another sees as perfectly acceptable or good, could in fact have a rationale that (when disconnected from the resulting practice) is acceptable to both cultures.? However, that still doesn’t quite fix the issue of the particular actions’ morality/immorality….

Anyway, I’m sure many have either fallen asleep or just plain left my site at this point… but that’s just unnecessary for me to even add that because the persons to whom it refers wouldn’t be reading it, would they?

Oooookay… well since I’m a genius wordpress-site-mover, I have managed to lose every single comment made on my blog… ever.

WONDERFUL, right?

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Well folks, congratulations are in order!? To whom should you forward your heartfelt felicitations to, you ask?? Well to me!? mrQ and I decided to forego having to plan a big wedding (and consequently waiting another year or so, since we’ve been too busy to even start planning anything that big!), and instead we were married at a local village hall on Long Island with just immediate family present.

As of September 2, 2006, I am officially mrsQ!?

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It was five years ago today that so many innocent lives were ended.? Among those who were killed because of this attack was Leonard M. Castrianno.

Mr. Castrianno was a sales coordinator for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor World Trade Center, and lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.? He was originally from Buffalo, in upstate New York, but had moved to New York City after finishing college.? Mr. Castrianno was just a few days away from becoming a broker for the firm when the attacks happened.

His family and friends saw him as the type of guy to always be there whenever you needed him.? He never hesitated to help out a friend in need, "whether it was writing a resume or purchasing a new computer".? One neighbor in particular from Buffalo suffered from muscular dystrophy, so to help him be able to live more comfortably, Mr. Castrianno would go grocery shopping with him, painted his house and would take him to get haircuts at the barber shop, among other things… all just to help a friend in need…

Friends and family also saw that Mr. Castrianno was a very hard worker, waiting tables and working in a grocery store through school, then working his way up the ladder at Cantor Fitzgerald.? He was a friendly and sincere fellow who was missed greatly, which was shown by the 700 mourners from his hometown and beyond who attended his memorial service.

Reading his story brought tears to my eyes, not just because of the tragedy that took his life, but because I can only imagine the amount of hurt that his friends and family felt, and noone should ever have to feel that… He was in the prime of his life, with still so much potential…

I also came across many internet memorials for Mr. Castrianno, where his friends, family, and even passing acquaintances posted heart-wrenching testimonials to this man’s character and life… It is truly a tragedy that Mr. Castrianno was, on that fateful day, one of the 2,996.? Wherever his spirit is, I hope he knows that he is truly missed.

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