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ilex  ·  1898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 11, 2019

Good morning fellow Hubskiers and welcome to the ersatz pubski!

It has been a long week for me. I spoke with my parents for a while on Friday and now I am writing a letter to them. I'm not sure what I want the conclusion to be yet or if it's one of those letters you write and never send.

I served on a jury (as a back-up juror) Monday and Tuesday. It was a he-said-she-said statutory (and actual) rape case. The testimony was harrowing even just to listen to. This morning I called and discovered that it was declared a mistrial, which I assume means the jury hung. And people wonder why sexual assault victims don't bring suit against their abusers.

In positive news, a conference paper I wrote this summer got accepted and the revisions look minor!

Hope you all are well.





kleinbl00  ·  1898 days ago  ·  link  ·  

d00d you brought the bourbon Fuckin' mk's pubski can fuck off forever now with his half-drunk IPA.

Congrats on the letter, congrats on choosing not to send it, and only the sociopaths wonder why sexual assault victims don't bring suit against their abusers. I don't mean to denigrate your gaze into the abyss. I've only ever had to deal with competency and penalty-setting in jury duty.

ilex  ·  1898 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hell yeah I brought the bourbon!

kingmudsy  ·  1897 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm not sure what I want the conclusion to be yet or if it's one of those letters you write and never send.

I'm sure you'll find the answers damn near simultaneously. I'm glad that you're writing it, at least, as I'm sure it's giving you some catharsis. Props on the paper, by the way! That sounds huge :)

Hope everything is well with you, too!

ilex  ·  1897 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haven't slept well since Friday and other parts of my life are also chaos but I'm still putting one foot in front of the other so I can't complain too much. :)