Okay, I had a request for the violinist. So in the interest of full disclosure, this was before she became ‘famous’ (whatever that really means), and she is really only famous in some circles I think. Not like Yo Yo Ma. I am not a musician, but I’m told that she is reasonably well known and successful, has won some major competitions, etc. And before you go looking, she does not really play violin. I changed this and some other details to protect anonymity.
This started when I was a grad student at a university known for its parties and in a town known for its, erhm, view. It was in May, so the heat was just starting to ramp up. I first saw her at the graduation ceremony, as thousands of people were stuck in a sweaty poorly ventilated field house. We will call her Maria. Maria was maybe 5’5”, so not super short, short/pixie cut hair, glasses, and a prominent nose. That’s all I got to see at first because she was in a graduation robe and I just remember thinking, oh, that’s a pretty girl. I was working on my grad degree at the time and was hired to help with PA setup and teardown.