For the Record

This is what I posted privately shortly after the Mnstf meeting on September 21st. Had I been writing for the general public, I would have phrased things slightly differently, but I am not going to go back and edit.

If you are wondering why I am posting this, it is because Louie has been saying odd things about that meeting, and Nate's behavior, which are as far as I can tell, non-factual. She may be describing her experience, but her subjective experience is not congruent with what I observed. I would also like to note, publicly, that she is gloating about having access to Nate's second journal, the nate_bucklin journal, which she obviously knows she is not supposed to have access to. At least, I am inferring the gloating from her subject header, which is "Teehee".

So, here is my post:

Much to my surprise, Nate and Louie were at the Mnstf meeting today. Even more surprising, Louie was utterly unexceptionable.

The first thing Nate said to me was, "I was afraid you wouldn't be speaking to me." I told him I would always be speaking to him. Later, when Louie was out of earshot, I told him that he would always be my friend, even when he did things that I thought were stupid. He said that he'd like to say the same thing, but that he didn't think I did stupid things. There was some rueful laughter, and I assured him that I did, indeed do stupid things. Kind friends helpfully agreed.

Louie did not bird-dog Nate. He was able to move about freely, and talk to people privately. Louie talked to people in a generally polite and friendly fashion. She got into at least one conversation on her own with Carole Vandal. There may have been others. Everyone was polite to her. The people that decided to avoid her did so in non-obvious ways, at least as far as I could tell.

I didn't engage much with her, though I didn't avoid her. I did laugh at one of her jokes. She made a point of telling me a story about being wonderful and kind to someone. Nate chimed in at this point about how wonderful it was when someone he really liked hit it off with Louie. Perhaps this was pointed, perhaps not.

It may have helped the drama quotient significantly that his sister Alison and Carol Eschweiler had already left by the time they got there. Evidently neither of them knew that Nate had gone back to Louie.

Nate and Louie bought memberships for Fallcon, and are planning on going. I hope that whoever used the sane gas at the Mnstf meeting remembers to use it at Fallcon.

Really, they looked like a normal, happy couple. Nate looked especially happy. It's always nice to see Nate look happy. I don't think this will last, but just at the moment, things look good.

Also for the record

There's one other thing that is really bothering me about Louie's post in response to Nate's post in nate_bucklin. She says that I criticized Nate's behavior in a post which has since been deleted. Since the post has been deleted, no one can see what I wrote, and so she can say pretty much anything she wants to, but that doesn't make it true.

Specifically, I criticized Louie's projected behavior, and told Nate that it was neither kind nor appropriate to enable Louie to behave in such an uncivilized fashion. In the event, they didn't follow through on their bizarre plan, most likely because of something someone else said, and not me. Which is fine. What I really was concerned about was that a social venue which is important to me not be turned into a war zone, which it wasn't. So, mission accomplished.

However, Louie is implying that I somehow endorse her claims that Nate batters her, and that I told him so on his LJ. This is entirely untrue.

If anyone is deeply curious, I do have a copy of what I wrote, and can send it to you. But honestly, it's all water under the dam. The issue about which I am currently concerned is that she is misrepresenting what I wrote. I dislike this in the extreme.