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Wow… already?

I already have 3 subscibers to my RSS feed, and I only put the new link up, I think, yesterday. That’s great!!

So, let me blog about my crappy laptop. Over the summer, there was a storm, and a really bad lightning strike that fried my laptop (and scared the crap out of me). Unfortunately, I didn’t have a change to get it completely fixed (it needs a new motherboard), but I did get a quick fix.

Unfortunately, not even that doesn’t work half the time. The only real problem is the ethernet. The building I live in doesn’t have access to wireless (I live in a dorm) so you have to connect via an ethernet port, but mine doesn’t work. I now have to go home today and buy a new “thingy” so that I can use it. I can’t get it repaired completely until winter break because I need my laptop. But, during winter break, I’ll be at home, where there is computer that I can use.

My week

And what a glorious one it was. I’ve spent the past week studying like crazy for 4 midterms. Last Saturday, I had to bargain over a labor contract, as if I had time to do that, although it was kind of fun. The one really good thing about it though, I met this guy, an econ major, who was really nice to look at lol. I think from England, I heard a slight accent, and he did say “bloody” once or twice, really smart. He’s in one of my classes but I guess I never noticed. Haven’t seen him again though.

So, aside from that, and my intermediate forays online, I’ve been studying and reading and studying and dying from exhaustion. And, it’s not like you get a lot of time to work on your exams, you get an 1hr, 1hr 15min. tops to do an insane amount of stuff.

I know I’ve been complaining all week about them, but they’ve really been stressing me out. Luckily, I only have 1 paper before finals so my major work will be that and reading. I think I can handle it…. I hope.

Can I be psychic?

Last year, I dreamt that my brother was living in LA right? I didn’t remember though because I forget things easily. So anyway, this past August, he moved to… LA. Here I am, on the bus thinking, whoa I KNEW that would happen, and it did.

Then, the sad thing. I do sometimes watch MTV, but not that often. There’s this really dumb show about Rev. Run DMC (or whatever he calls himself) that airs, it’s probably off by now. Anyway, he and his wife had decided that they wanted to have another baby, she’s like 40 or something. As soon as I heard, I was like, something bad is going to happen. I couldn’t even watch anymore because I felt uncomfortable looking at her.

Last week… I heard that she went into labor prematurely and the baby died. I felt like crying. It’s like I knew something bad would happen, but I hoped nothing would. Is that being psychic or psychotic?

A father’s role

On Chanel’s site, she started a discussion on Abortion, and the right that women have to commit it. I’m always reticent to join in a discussion about abortion because there are so many different sides that you can take. So many different reasons why it should or should not be legal. Am I for abortion? Yes, but only in cases where the person… or should I say woman, committing the act is doing so responsibly. Should a woman be allowed to have 3 abortions because she just has to “get some”? No, that is not only disgusting, but dangerous and disheartening.

So, instead of discussing abortion, here’s my question. Is it fair for a man to be called to pay child support in cases where he is really and biologically not the father. Explanation: there are many women who lie to the men that they are with and say that the baby is theirs. In time, however it happens, the truth comes out. Years may have passed, whatever. But, there are numerous, more often than not I believe, where courts decide that the man should continue to pay child support because he has already taken on the responsibility.

Is that fair? Should he be forced to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on a child that is not his, whilst the mother does not have legal punishment? In essence, the woman is committing fraud (especially if she knew that there was a possibility that the man was not the father), and yet she is getting away with it, and being blessed. Why not go after the real father? Why must the real and good man be punished because the woman he slept with was a slut?

That angers me. What do you think?

Edit /=

• I’ve added a new article, on my pet peeves of website reviews. This may anger quite a few people. You can read it, and my other writings in the My Thoughts section.
• I’m about to start on my globalization thoughts now. I’m now about 1/3 to 1/2 way through it.
• I’ve re-written the Sitemap page because the plugin no longer works.
• I’ve added another book to my Recommended Reads section.
• I’ve also changed the access keys (and added an accessibility statement) because the previous ones were all over the place, I’ve gone with numbers, and 1 letter).

I’ve made two new link buttons (no direct linking):