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Post Arisia
Jan. 15th, 2001 09:12 pm"Been a busy weekend. I spent the second half of the week trying to get everything done for arisia. This included cleaning out & throughly scrubbing The Cat, as well as finishing installing her new horn (she now meows!). Packing clothes & toys for arisa, and finishing insulating the basement here (I hate home maintaince, I can't wait to live in an apartment again). I actually intended to stay up very late on thursday then sleep in on friday, so I could shunt my sleep schedule over in preparation for being on con time :). However I finished everything I could think of to do by 11:30, and going to bed then.
Fri:
Dispite my plan to sleep in, I awoke at 9:30am. Finished up the few things on my list of cores that I hadn't been able to do the previous night. This included making three custom t-shirts for my friend[R], and clearing the snow off the spare cars here in case someone needed them (I managed to give my self a blister in the process. Getting a blister from an ice scraper is just embarrasing). [C] also stopped by and dropped her custom made bat wings off, which I would be transporting up in The Cat as she had no room for them in her car.
Around 4pm I headed off to NYC for the Applemunch. At the munch I met up with [R] and all her sweeties, as well as [M] (who's new years party I'd been to). The munch was mobbed with several times more people then usually show up. Among them was an aquiaintance from the Vassar crowd, whom was very impressed by my fur claw gloves, and immediately commisioned a set for $150! In addition to just seeing the usual munch ppl, I was also going to be driving [R] & [p] up to arisia in exchange for gas & toll money.
At around 10pm we finally left NYC, and headed up to boston, arriving around 1:45am. I located [C] in the lobby and gave her her wings (which once she donned them, made her the focus of much admiring attention. I wandered about with [C] for a while, then we crash in her room both of us too tired to do anything but sleep.
Sat:
We awoke around 10am, showered and such and headed downstairs. I started out just wandering the con, checking out the dealer's rooms & such. The guy that sold me my claws at I-Con was there, selling all his great silver & bronze jewelry, as well as their well designed corsets (more on the corsets later). I was heading down towards the lobby, stopping off at every floor along the way to see who was around.
On the fourth floor I met up with [A] whome I had been introduced to briefly at the Nields concert on New Years day, and whom I and [C] had met again at a craft store on the way up to the last Western Mass Poly meeting. I stopped to give her a quick hug & scritch, and ended up staking out that corner on the fourth floor along with her and an ever changing ameoba of cool people for the next several hours. She and I talked & snuggled & scritched until she had to go off to babysit (she was working babysitting to get free con membership).
After she left I went back to [C]'s room and got my boots, then headed out to The Cat to get the rest of my gear, having failed to sucker anyone into doing it for me. :) After stashing the gear, and putting on my Unseen University team jacket, I wandered down to the consuite.
There I encountered [l] in the middle of a puppy pile on the floor, I was invited to join and immediately snuggled in. At one point I brought up the idea of pokemon orgasms, and did a very loud & impressive immitation of one. Got an ovation for it too. :)
A bit later I wandered down to where my friend Laura Packer was doing storytelling (if you're inthe Boston area and get a chance to hear her doing storytelling DO IT! She's amazing), after that I changed into my saturday night goth clothes (black combat boots, black jeans, black collarless button down shirt, black silk vest) then wandered around some more. Was waiting for [A] when she got out of babysitting, and she and I wandered for a bit, doing more talking and snuggling.
Later we wandered back to her room, and she drew on my back with my claws, then we snuggled for a while. Her friends and roommates wandered back in, and we all hung out for a while, eventually we all drifted off towards sleep, however the fold out couch [A] and I had been sharing suddenly had four ppl on it. After [A] and I realized we were taking up about one person's worth of space, and she still had someone else's leg draped across her we gave up, and curled up in a nest of comforters & pilows on the floor.
Sun:
All things involved [A] and I got only an hour's sleep as her room became the babysitting room again at 10am and we all had to be either out of there or at least properly dressed by then.
[A] and I wanders off, hooked up with some ppl we had me ther previous night, and ended up staking out our corner on fourth again. [C] came by and joined us at one point. After more fun & oogling of cute ppl walking by, [A], [C] and I headed upstairs so they could try on corsets.
We went to the same people whom I had bought my claws from, as they make very good quiality corsets. [C] tried one on, and it did really impressive things to her waistline, however it was painful for her, and quickly got out of it. [A] tried one on, and it looked *great* on her. The guy selling them stated that it was the best he'd ever seen a corset fit, and couldn't have done a better job if he had measured and made it just for her.
[A] didn't have the money for the corset (it was $285), and in fact had almost nothing on her. So she and I ended up going aroudn the con, her carrying a cup and begging for donations to for the corset. This was a ton of fun, and she ended up making about $93 dollars, which would have been enough for a down payment. the guy selling them however, grinned at her when she came back in, and took the money and said 'Have fun. It's yours." He later said he didn't have the heart to take it from her even for a layaway after that, and that he'd had enough fun watching up go begging to make it worth while. These folx are great!
We hung out for a while longer, then [A] headed off for home with her friends.[R] had gone off to see friends in boston, and due to a miscommunication between us was out longer than I had expected. Eventually she and found each other and headed back to her place in NJ around 5:30 pm. After a long drive, made longer because we were both exhausted, we got back to her place and *crashed*.
We slept for about 12 hours. I got up showered, hung out with her for a bit and headed home. Along the way I got a ticket for 'improper lane change' *grumble*, and arrived home around 7pm.
Arisia was a ton of fun, And was exactly why I go to cons. To hang out with and meet interesting and cool people.
I also was amazed at not only how many people knew me there, but how many came up to me even to just say hello. People I barely know, or remember, who've met me briefly in passing sometime in the past. I guess I'm more memorable then I think.
All in all it was a worthwhile weekend.
Fri:
Dispite my plan to sleep in, I awoke at 9:30am. Finished up the few things on my list of cores that I hadn't been able to do the previous night. This included making three custom t-shirts for my friend[R], and clearing the snow off the spare cars here in case someone needed them (I managed to give my self a blister in the process. Getting a blister from an ice scraper is just embarrasing). [C] also stopped by and dropped her custom made bat wings off, which I would be transporting up in The Cat as she had no room for them in her car.
Around 4pm I headed off to NYC for the Applemunch. At the munch I met up with [R] and all her sweeties, as well as [M] (who's new years party I'd been to). The munch was mobbed with several times more people then usually show up. Among them was an aquiaintance from the Vassar crowd, whom was very impressed by my fur claw gloves, and immediately commisioned a set for $150! In addition to just seeing the usual munch ppl, I was also going to be driving [R] & [p] up to arisia in exchange for gas & toll money.
At around 10pm we finally left NYC, and headed up to boston, arriving around 1:45am. I located [C] in the lobby and gave her her wings (which once she donned them, made her the focus of much admiring attention. I wandered about with [C] for a while, then we crash in her room both of us too tired to do anything but sleep.
Sat:
We awoke around 10am, showered and such and headed downstairs. I started out just wandering the con, checking out the dealer's rooms & such. The guy that sold me my claws at I-Con was there, selling all his great silver & bronze jewelry, as well as their well designed corsets (more on the corsets later). I was heading down towards the lobby, stopping off at every floor along the way to see who was around.
On the fourth floor I met up with [A] whome I had been introduced to briefly at the Nields concert on New Years day, and whom I and [C] had met again at a craft store on the way up to the last Western Mass Poly meeting. I stopped to give her a quick hug & scritch, and ended up staking out that corner on the fourth floor along with her and an ever changing ameoba of cool people for the next several hours. She and I talked & snuggled & scritched until she had to go off to babysit (she was working babysitting to get free con membership).
After she left I went back to [C]'s room and got my boots, then headed out to The Cat to get the rest of my gear, having failed to sucker anyone into doing it for me. :) After stashing the gear, and putting on my Unseen University team jacket, I wandered down to the consuite.
There I encountered [l] in the middle of a puppy pile on the floor, I was invited to join and immediately snuggled in. At one point I brought up the idea of pokemon orgasms, and did a very loud & impressive immitation of one. Got an ovation for it too. :)
A bit later I wandered down to where my friend Laura Packer was doing storytelling (if you're inthe Boston area and get a chance to hear her doing storytelling DO IT! She's amazing), after that I changed into my saturday night goth clothes (black combat boots, black jeans, black collarless button down shirt, black silk vest) then wandered around some more. Was waiting for [A] when she got out of babysitting, and she and I wandered for a bit, doing more talking and snuggling.
Later we wandered back to her room, and she drew on my back with my claws, then we snuggled for a while. Her friends and roommates wandered back in, and we all hung out for a while, eventually we all drifted off towards sleep, however the fold out couch [A] and I had been sharing suddenly had four ppl on it. After [A] and I realized we were taking up about one person's worth of space, and she still had someone else's leg draped across her we gave up, and curled up in a nest of comforters & pilows on the floor.
Sun:
All things involved [A] and I got only an hour's sleep as her room became the babysitting room again at 10am and we all had to be either out of there or at least properly dressed by then.
[A] and I wanders off, hooked up with some ppl we had me ther previous night, and ended up staking out our corner on fourth again. [C] came by and joined us at one point. After more fun & oogling of cute ppl walking by, [A], [C] and I headed upstairs so they could try on corsets.
We went to the same people whom I had bought my claws from, as they make very good quiality corsets. [C] tried one on, and it did really impressive things to her waistline, however it was painful for her, and quickly got out of it. [A] tried one on, and it looked *great* on her. The guy selling them stated that it was the best he'd ever seen a corset fit, and couldn't have done a better job if he had measured and made it just for her.
[A] didn't have the money for the corset (it was $285), and in fact had almost nothing on her. So she and I ended up going aroudn the con, her carrying a cup and begging for donations to for the corset. This was a ton of fun, and she ended up making about $93 dollars, which would have been enough for a down payment. the guy selling them however, grinned at her when she came back in, and took the money and said 'Have fun. It's yours." He later said he didn't have the heart to take it from her even for a layaway after that, and that he'd had enough fun watching up go begging to make it worth while. These folx are great!
We hung out for a while longer, then [A] headed off for home with her friends.[R] had gone off to see friends in boston, and due to a miscommunication between us was out longer than I had expected. Eventually she and found each other and headed back to her place in NJ around 5:30 pm. After a long drive, made longer because we were both exhausted, we got back to her place and *crashed*.
We slept for about 12 hours. I got up showered, hung out with her for a bit and headed home. Along the way I got a ticket for 'improper lane change' *grumble*, and arrived home around 7pm.
Arisia was a ton of fun, And was exactly why I go to cons. To hang out with and meet interesting and cool people.
I also was amazed at not only how many people knew me there, but how many came up to me even to just say hello. People I barely know, or remember, who've met me briefly in passing sometime in the past. I guess I'm more memorable then I think.
All in all it was a worthwhile weekend.
