ShibariCon notes
Thursday I hopped on the MAX, dressed in cowboy style jammig out to Allanah Myles (prepping for the LR strip show), and got to the airport with plenty of time. Flights unexiting, but annoying because people in front of me kept sleeping and thus I couldn't do computer work on the plane there or back, sigh. Orla and Percy met me at the airport, and finally we got to the hotel around midnight, ugh, long travel day... but I still stopped and had a drink with Monk and was annoyed at MorTis (if you're not going to fuck me stop randomly grabbing my breasts, thanks). Next day I awoke at stupid-am to telecommute for 2 hours... the only morning I managed to get it in. This is bad. Sigh. My Friday suspension bondage class was well recieved, it is my lecture-style brain dump class and it never goes the same way twice. At least, random people all came up to me and said they got 2-3 things out of a 2 hour rant that they wanted to share- at least I inspired folks to make suspension and partial suspension their own.Friday night was the clown vs. raggedy Anne scene. Very curious. Especially because I was supposed to show up as a cowboy and she was supposed to show up as a housewife. Hm. It was fun, wierd at points, and neither of us did what we'd expected to do with the other. But we added color to the evening, which was full of many white women in kimonos- I was so glad I'd left mine at home. I also spent an hour talking with Bobby, Sir C's partner, about D/s power dynamics... and it gave me a lot to ponder about Furry and I and our relations to one another. I look forward to having cigars and drinks with Bobby at Leather Retreat.Saturday 2 more classes: Intro to Asian Aesthetic Rope Bondage (why did we not have this the first day??), and Erotic Macrame. Both classes full, both well recieved, and everyone walking away with skills and ideas IN HAND. This makes me very happy. Then Orla and I were off to IML- I BOUGHT A PLASTIC FIRE HYDRANT!!! I am so happy. Then, the drama. Ride #1 left because I was told Ride #2 was picking me up at the Cellblock women's party. OK. At 9pm Ride #2 said they weren't coming and could they arrange a car service for me for the next day. I got Crash space arranged last minute witha friend, all was fine. I had drinks with Levi and BBJim, dinner with RogueBoi and friends, then headed off to the Cellblock party, ran into Phantom and FemCar, and then came back to IML with them to hit the Puppy Romp.What is a Puppy romp? 30 human puppies, their owners, trainers, fans... and lots of ogglers. Fire hydrants (FemCar was a human one), toys, scooby snacks, hot gay boys with puppy tail buttplugs, dry humping, barks, yowls, howls... and lots of joy. I was so happy to jusst scritch the cute puppies. I wanted to go in and romp, but I was less than dressed for the fun, and I didn't have someone there to pull me back into human mode if need be.At the puppy romp the Crash Space said he had a hot date and could I not crash with him. Ugh! I tried to call around to other crash space and failed. Phantom said that I could get a ride back with him if I would go to the A. Leather Rose dungeon party. Fine. I called the car service, cancelled it, and we were on our way. I spent most of the time at ARA just watching. One hot bondage scene. One super-hot wrestling scene. the rest I could have cared less about. I got bored, suspended myself, then masturbated... why not. Folks seemed very confused. Oh well, I was happy.We finally left around 4am, ugh (I'd hoped to be back at ShibariCon at Midnight to get up and telecommute- oh well), and then finally got back to the hotel 4:30 or 5am. Quick crash, up to teach my self-bondage class (thanks for the migrane drugs Kentucky Kiddos!), which went over well...I only attended 2 and 2 1/2 classes this weekend. Claire's Basic Stretching for Bondage Class (advanced was opposite my intro class). Sir C's Fundamentals of Rope Suspension. Rope Relationships Panel (which was nice on a retouching odd ties to folks), though folks there had some different styles of stuff than I so being the mouthy person I am I talked some though not on the panel. and caught the first bit of the Equestrian Play class... wow, that was SO not my style of education. I dislike formal psychology classes. i want to be drawn in, get hooked like a drug, be given ideas I can take away and use NOW... so yeah, the Pyramid of Intention is not my kink.Monday I had lunch with Canyon_lady before heading to the airport. Flights home got rerouted through Colorado Springs and I got home an hour late with no layovers running through Denver with my bags to barely make my connection and no food on the way home. I like Jumbalaya, but it did not keep me full all day long.So, what about the show?I fell.That is the short story.Long story to come in a bit.