A Visit from Steven

[drscott]

Friday I neatened up the house and shopped for the evening dinner party featuring special guest Steven Levine (unzeugmatic) and local special guest Lou Ceci, as well as regulars John and Mark. Steven arrived early (coming straight from work in Mountain View) and regaled us with a Morris dancing demo before the rest of the guests arrived. As usual I didn't get to partake of the pre-dinner repartee much, but dinner was fun -- we heard stories of how Steven was taken to dinner by Garrison Keillor, and discovered Steven and John had a good mutual friend whose first husband switched sexes [must be a really wrenching experience for everyone involved!] There was much discussion (most of it over my musical head) about shape note singing. While I was busy with food prep I got to overhear lots of interesting chatter about *me*, always my favorite topic. I didn't try anything new for dinner, but it turned out well.

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I have long since relinquished all memories of soc.motss to the dustbin, but they tried hard to revive them. No dice!

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Whuuuuuuh...?!?!? You participated in soc.motss?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Actually no, I only read it. When I started at BBN (one of the lesser-known early Unix shops for things like TCP/IP code) I was warned never to post on Usenet because it would be a vast waste of time. Good advice, as it turns out, and I never did spend much time posting even after I left BBN.

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know BBN well. I used to reside in Boston and spend more time in Cambridge than Boston. Is that how you know unzeugmatic? I had assumed it was through dancing.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

No, we knew each other from being in the small coterie of MIT/Harvard/etc (he went to Brown) people in the early 80s. I tried to pick him up at an MIT dance once, but he didn't notice (or so he says!)

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Heheh. I used to go to the MIT gay grad student functions in the 1990s.