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c_hawkthorne  ·  644 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 22, 2022

I've officially finished up my internship! It was a good time but without pay I couldn't stay longer. I successfully got myself some Mayhaw Jelly from a guy with a sign at the end of the driveway. Mayhaw is this weird super regional fruit that is apparently impossible to eat straight up due to bitterness, but people make it into jelly or syrup and eat it like that. It kinda tastes like this lovely mix of raspberry and apple and lemon. It only grows in swampy areas in the south. I'm curious if any of y'all southern hubskiiers have ever had it too or if I'm now the only one of us to have consumed the local rural southern delicacy. No one in Atlanta knows about it even though many people I know are born and raised here, including one guy who prides himself on eating and cooking super locally. So I'm quite pleased I got to find and experience all that. I also got kindly scolded on how I speak and aggressively advertised religion (shoutout to my colleague who declared Christianity as not a religion but a relationship and told me about a church I should seek out in Atlanta and when looking up that pastor he hates LGBTQ+ individuals...). Overall an excellent learning experience and a good glimpse into a very unique way of life, and one I'm glad not to be a part of honestly. That was just too small town for my taste.

In other news, I'm officially a published author I think? I helped with grammatical edits in an abstract and because I helped there they added me as an author. So that's being submitted to a conference in a few months through my job and the abstract was accepted. I'm not entirely sure if that means I'm a legit bona fide published author, but I think it does? So that's neat. Y'all smarter than me please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also on the spelling of y'all -- y'all or ya'll? I'm preferential to y'all not ya'll as it's a contraction between you and all, but my deep south boss spelled it ya'll. It's apparently a legit argument and I'm curious at to all of your thoughts on this deeply complex and complicated grammatical issue.