BiCon
Positives:
I am going to put the biggest positive on a separate post...
I ran Genitalia Show & Tell, and it went really well. I got a lot of positive feedback. It was somewhat stressful, but I was still able to enjoy the session. Most of us took the lower half of our clothes off and we took it in turns to talk about our genitals. We talked about various things to do with our genitals, allowed people to look closer at them, and asked each other questions. Despite it being a 10am slot on a Sunday morning, we had 15 people turn up, yay!
A very positive thing was the way in which the organisers dealt with a distressing problem that I reported. They dealt with it swiftly, efficiently and tactfully. I'm really glad I reported the problem, as it was disturbing other people as well as me.
Dancing. Lots and lots of dancing. Silly dancing, serious dancing, funky dancing, doing the twist.
My focus was on looking after myself. Sleep, food, not too many workshops, not too much looking after others at the expense of looking after myself, not too much talking about Serious Things, a brief but necessary talk with one of the counsellors.
I was a social butterfly, flitting from person to person with ease. Shockingly easy! I liked that a lot. The atmosphere of BiCon sometimes makes it really easy for me to get on with people. This helped me to promote Bi Coffee London.
Lots of people liked my black frilly pirate shirt that I wore with a black velvet blazer, black jeans, black boots and stripy black and purple socks. I got a lot of compliments the night I wore that outfit. Yay compliments!
Although I got a lot of potentially difficult compliments about the changed shape of my body, most of the time that was ok. I got a lot of compliments about being fit and muscular rather than compliments about being less fat. That was good. I was only made to feel uncomfortable the one time, when someone told me that I looked 'much better' than two years ago. Yeah, f*ck off. Edit: I got completely the wrong end of the stick with this compliment, and feel a bit silly for lashing out on my LJ. Ho hum! /Edit
Negatives were largely nothing to do with BiCon or the BiCon organisers. I was exhausted for most of the time despite quite sensible bedtimes and one or two naps a day, plus moderate exercise every day. I described myself as happy-tired. There were a couple of days where I felt completely overwhelmed. I ascribe this to having had houseguests at my home when packing and throughout BiCon. I entered BiCon with the after-effects of being a desperately eager-to-please host, which I find stressful (and pointless!) Also, boo to BiCon Comedown. Ex-partners will not be receiving emotional and detailed emails saying how much I miss them!
Yay BiCon!
I am going to put the biggest positive on a separate post...
I ran Genitalia Show & Tell, and it went really well. I got a lot of positive feedback. It was somewhat stressful, but I was still able to enjoy the session. Most of us took the lower half of our clothes off and we took it in turns to talk about our genitals. We talked about various things to do with our genitals, allowed people to look closer at them, and asked each other questions. Despite it being a 10am slot on a Sunday morning, we had 15 people turn up, yay!
A very positive thing was the way in which the organisers dealt with a distressing problem that I reported. They dealt with it swiftly, efficiently and tactfully. I'm really glad I reported the problem, as it was disturbing other people as well as me.
Dancing. Lots and lots of dancing. Silly dancing, serious dancing, funky dancing, doing the twist.
My focus was on looking after myself. Sleep, food, not too many workshops, not too much looking after others at the expense of looking after myself, not too much talking about Serious Things, a brief but necessary talk with one of the counsellors.
I was a social butterfly, flitting from person to person with ease. Shockingly easy! I liked that a lot. The atmosphere of BiCon sometimes makes it really easy for me to get on with people. This helped me to promote Bi Coffee London.
Lots of people liked my black frilly pirate shirt that I wore with a black velvet blazer, black jeans, black boots and stripy black and purple socks. I got a lot of compliments the night I wore that outfit. Yay compliments!
Although I got a lot of potentially difficult compliments about the changed shape of my body, most of the time that was ok. I got a lot of compliments about being fit and muscular rather than compliments about being less fat. That was good. I was only made to feel uncomfortable the one time, when someone told me that I looked 'much better' than two years ago. Yeah, f*ck off. Edit: I got completely the wrong end of the stick with this compliment, and feel a bit silly for lashing out on my LJ. Ho hum! /Edit
Negatives were largely nothing to do with BiCon or the BiCon organisers. I was exhausted for most of the time despite quite sensible bedtimes and one or two naps a day, plus moderate exercise every day. I described myself as happy-tired. There were a couple of days where I felt completely overwhelmed. I ascribe this to having had houseguests at my home when packing and throughout BiCon. I entered BiCon with the after-effects of being a desperately eager-to-please host, which I find stressful (and pointless!) Also, boo to BiCon Comedown. Ex-partners will not be receiving emotional and detailed emails saying how much I miss them!
Yay BiCon!