Also, I don't feel like I'm enough of a real programmer to go to a tech conference, which is kind of ridiculous, because it's explicitly for newbies. I usually am fine at conferences, because I make sure to go with someone I know and can make snarky comments to, but this is going to be all strangers. Speaking of which, I am going to a conference for newbie computer programmers next week, and I am very nervous. This is a trick question for people with social anxiety, because the idea of having a dinner party with three strangers whom I admire is kind of excruciating. There have been super-dramatic clouds today and the sun is setting and sunset-light filtering through the clouds is hitting the trees and four-foot-high wild grass outside in mega-dramatic ways right now, and the greens look super-saturated and the highlights are almost silver they're so bright. But I'm not sure about hosting people I don't know all that well, even if they all work in wine and would bring very lovely bottles over. It was a vague enough invitation that I can easily wiggle out of it, in large part because, you know, she was inviting them to not-her house, which is weird, but I guess she's been talking up my cooking/hosting to them, and it kind of had the vibe of "Ooh, we should all go to this great restaurant I love!", which was flattering. This question is relevant to my activities today because I went wine-tasting with a friend and two of her co-workers, and she kind of invited them to a dinner party at my place. If someone else were hosting, I might branch out more, but I wouldn't want to dictate whom someone else should be inviting over, so I'd try to be happy with whoever ("whomever"? Dammit, why did I start caring?) showed up. So: Three good friends who appreciate good but not super-fancy cooking and who laugh a lot, that is who (whom? It's "whom," right?) I would pick. I've been hosting a lot of dinner parties lately with friends and they've been awesome and so I have to say that hosting dinner with three good friends sounds better to me than hosting dinner for strangers, no matter how fascinating they are, because I'd get all neurotic about my cooking and the state of my house and such.
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