Ohio Leather Fest

Thursday night I shot smut with Graziella at KnotNice.com (after getting my hair done by Clarissa at Barbarama), and during the final scene of a very hot shoot (hots that girl is a hottie, even if I have no interest in dating her), I was tying her ankles to a side point when I heard my knee go pop pop- shit, I'll pay for that later. Scout lured me out to have drinks afterwards, and it was fucked up- not the drinks, but getting there, and it meant me walking for 40 minutes and almost getting run over at one point all while on a fucked up knee. Sigh. Drinks were good though, some hotties at Booty that night. Back home at 2am i packed for OLF and at 4am Furry and I hopped in a car to get me to PDX in time for my 5:30am flight. Cliumbus via Phoenix- how does that make sense?I ended up running into Dossie Easton at the airport and she and I sat around and chatted waiting for our ride, who turned out to be the hot bear energy running guy I met in the pool with his wife from TESFest. The three of us chatted ethics, safewords and history all the way to the hotel. I had no set plans that night, so I grabbed a bite to eat with Alex Bettencourt then headed to Dossie's opening ceremonies speech about history, being out, etc in the scene, and the importance of events. It was good to see lots of folks, though yet again I did not connect on any real level with a few folks who I cherish, and I have no idea why- its kind of heart wrenching to see folks who always used to go "Bridgettt!!!!!" at me barely go "heya" instead, if that makes any sense.I got to go to one great class that night though, one of two by Master Jim and slave marsha, who I'd met in passing before but not gotten to know or seen any of the classes of. I am deeply inspired. So, a few points from my 2 pages of notes from these 2 classes by them... some that lead to some great chats between Hunter and I, and some that will soon:-Service & Obedience is not just for when it is convenient-Absolute Ownership = Absolute Responsibility (abusers do not accept responsibility)-What is your Leather Philosphy?-Just because I want something does not mean that having it is in my best interest in the big picture-How do you respond to Lapses vs. Extended Periods of not following through?I ended up playing by myself that night, and ya know, what, self pleasure is really good some days.The next day I attended Dan&dawn's Sacred Sexuality class, which had some good basics but was a mile a minute, then a second class by Jim & marsha, then had a quick lunch before coming back to catch Alex's class on Buddism as a path of service. My Rope for Sex class round one (OLF has each class run twice) was packed and was full of fun, humor, and in general a good time. My Asian Rope Class was turned into Breath Play by the magic of late night decisions that it was absurd to have me do both classes (both have similar physical skills taught, one just focuses on fucking and one on aesthetics/history). Breath Play round one was a moderatly full class, and was nice because Coco ended up being my demo bunny for the class which was great to get to connect with her again.As I'd messed up my knee, I could no longer do any sets to music by Prince... I get too physical. So I'd reworked my show for the dinner that night, and ended up stripping to "The Lapdance is Always Better When the Stripper is Crying" bu Bloodhound Gang, "Freaky Girl" by Shaggy, and then tied up Ponygirl Missy Comet to the song "Never Let You Go" by Third Eye Blind. Then Gina took the stage and talked about the history of OLF, as this was the final year, and why it was the final year. As Gina got herself back together, Goddess Lakshimi in all her fabulousness took the stage and we ended up raising about $1100 towards OLF's red ink in about 15 minutes.Then back on stage I MC'd like mad, and had the crowd in rolling laughter at points which meant a job well done. I love MCing charity auctions, I really really do. We raised almost $900 for the Columbus AIDS Education charity.I ended up being purchased in the auction by an amazing girl I'd been flirting with a little bit (after poor Goddess Lakshimi almost had a heart attack from not winning me after my gang bang comment). We discussed various pseudo negotiation shit while I got changed and ate a bite of dinner, then agreed to meet in the dungeon. There had been a plan about rope bondage... screw plans. I don't seem to follow planned scenes well right now. Organic chemistry seems to be the watch word of the day. Highlights included:-Not letting the flilthy needy slut use furniture until she could act like a human-Boots in cunts-High energy nibbling-Boot balancing-Gatorade play-Gnawing and feeding on energyAfterwards she and I ended up chilling back in my room, where the quote of the weekend became:Bagels are, like, so subversiveSunday I slept in through a class I'd REALLY wanted to attend (Pony's Christianity and BDSM), but was able to catch Michelle Belanger's Sado-Shamanism class. Nothing I did not know already, but a lot of ways to phrase what we do that I appreciated picking up. When the ritual happend in the class, I ended up sitting there with claws dug in just in case Cougar decided to come my way... and when I felt like I was about to rage in the room, it was interesting getting to do a little bit of work myself with Dragonfly, huh. Yes, I am babbling :)Lunch that day with Dossie, Coco, Cougar, Michelle, myself and one lass I don;t really know was high high energy and lots of meat.Breath Play round 2 was small but intense. Rope play round 2 was also small, but really satisfying getting to help people who really needed the extra help who ended up Getting It, plus laughing my ass off being turned into a dildo tentacle monster as I taught strap ons and thigh harnesses... and eventually ran into Michelle's class for a moment to cause trouble. Dinner out with Lakshimi's crew was lovely, and she even gave me a dollar for inspiring good orgasms, hooray for the whore box!Truth or Dare basically became "let Bridgett interrogate the room", which was hilarious, and I feel sorry for the poor boy whose sexuality i scarred by making him tell us a tale that involved:-Himself-Pokemon charachters-Batman Charchters-3 Condoms in Active use in the story-and bonus points for Flock of BirdsShane and I finally got to catch up Sunday night, so instead of being pummeled physically it was emotionally, and it was much needed. I tried to sleep but failed when I was still unable to reach Hunter, and ended up using the calling tree to reach him (THANK YOU VICS!). An hour later he and I had worked past a stack of his shit that needed worked through, developing tools for him to take and run past his therapist (ha ha, I win), and then it finally turned into amazingly hot phone sex that left both of us with hard ons and OH MY GOD, um, yeah. I came so hard that we're pretty sure I've bruised something in my eyeball. This may sound funny but its unbelievably painful.I want to talk about some of this tale, but yeah, Hunter, Tam and I need to talk first. Watch me be a responsible loving poly partner.What, you mean you don't air everything in your LJ? Um, nope.Julia and I got taken by Gina to the hotel at 4:30am, which was nice, and I had drama at the airport about getting my 3ft rattan stick through security, but it got home via being checked. Apparently each airports TSA managers has the right to make random decisions about what can go on a plane and what can't- thus taking a quarterstaff on board is OK at PDX and LAX, but a 3ft rattan stick is not ok at Columbus International.Came home, crashed, woke to do work, talked, crashed again.Yup, I had a busy weekend, but that is good. OLF is over, but I am happy that I got to be part of 2 of them. I'm very glad to have met a few new folks, really connected with a few folks I'd met before, and was happy to do it all sporting a hairdo that involves spider webs.