From: ACM022@Zeus.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
Subject: Meeting Kathryn and Linda
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 08:09:38 GMT
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I didn't know what to expect from the Honor's Conference. Here's the
things I'll remember about it:

	Sterling poetry. Written by the various members of the group
	under the pen-name of Gina's teddy bear, this poetry is used
	to alleviate stress. Such gems as 'Sterling finds his tummy
	is in a funny mood / Sterling should have known he shouldn't
	eat such ugly food' and 'Sterling is a grumpy bear / Sterling's
	feeling pissed / Sterling thinks the guys in charge / should
	say this thing's dismissed' are examples.

	Jesus Christ Community College. Actually Johnson County CC,
	It's a really nice campus. Lots of gorgeous architecture and
	trees and sculpture and shit. Favorite sculpture would have to
	be one that looks like a pyramid-shaped wavy jungle gym with
	a boulder climbing on it and another boulder lying beside it
	as if the one boulder pushed the other off.

	'What a Sexually Permissive Society!'. That's the title of a
	paper (! included) that was presented at the conference. I
	should have known to avoid that one, but I guess I was in the
	mood to bonk my head against the wall of Patriarchal thought.
	The paper was lame, operating under the premise that everyone
	thinks like a Catholic and that promiscuity is bad and teenage
	pregnancy is a bad thing rather than something that we don't
	deal with correctly. After the paper the audience (me included)
	bickered about who had the correct morals, then we left for
	lunch.

	The food. The welcoming banquet featured the most frightening
	hunk of meat I'd ever seen; 50 pounds of cow, cold, roast about
	an inch deep with the rest approximately the color that the
	International Male catalog refers to as 'salmon'. It looked like
	a prop for a cheap horror flick. Breakfast the next day was easy
	enough, donuts, coffee, and OJ, and lunch was passable, with
	cold cuts, fruits and veggies, and some kick-butt desserts. We'll
	not talk about all the travel-snackies; chips, 'Nilla Wafers,
	chips, pop, ginger snaps... *groan*

	The ride home. Nice day, kind of hot, sleeping in the back seat
	listening to 'Around the World in a Day' on the headphones.
	Annoyed with traveling, want to get home so I could quit moving.
	Relief when the exits start going to familiar places. Squinting
	into the sun driving down Dodge street towards home.

	Kathryn and Linda Huxtable. Certainly the high point of the trip.
	A couple that's so in love it would be sickening if it weren't
	so real. After we got in contact (I wrote their home phone number
	down wrong, so I left a message on Kathryn's work machine and
	tried to find a relative in the phone book who knew their home
	phone number. Not good to cold-call the relatives of other sexual
	deviants... hope your uncle hasn't bugged you about that, Kathryn),
	we met at the hotel and went to some yuppie grub stop (Me, K+L, and
	my friend Ang Kroeger, who knows them from Sappho). Talked for a
	long time, imbibed stuff, checked out the wedding photos (they're
	*wonderful*! So beautiful...), and tried to teach them how to tie
	knots in cherry stems with their teeth. It's so nice to see motss
	PDA's!!! Hope to see them again some day. Maybe not during an
	Honors con, though...

---
John Dorrance				** Disco Diva y Flamenco Chico **
ACM022@zeus.unomaha.edu
	You bring me to my knees while I'm scratching at the eyes
	Of a world I want to conquer and deliver and despise.

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