THURSDAY: grabbed my bags. headed out the door early to catch my bolt bus. (was no room in the car for four people so i opted to bus) no sweat. i get on and head out. smooth sailing. then... OH NO!!! busses looses fluid and breaks down an hour n a half away from seattle! get stuck on the bus for an hour and a half before a new one comes. ( athelstan  tekkub and  ben_roprim drove past me with lulz).

Back on track to seatac. riding the light rail from seattle to hilton hit me with so many memories I've missed since i moved away. the smell of the air. the big seattle scene. the sound of that "doors to my right" voice on the light rail. then seatac, where i lived for a year (during rf 12 too) so i reach the lobby and upon checkin i get hit with a shocker. my reservation was gone!!! i asked why she said i was booked from the 23rd to the 27th not the 24th. i told her i made that correction over the phone months ago and he said i was set for 24th. after a few minutes of silently clacking away at the keyboard she looks up and then swipes my card and hands me my card keys >.=.> guess they found me a room.

So after that I met up with ben and went to go register. bumped into a few people i knew. including  midekai who always leaves you in tears (hilarious motherfucker) then we went to get registered. ben n i were staff this year. running the artist ally. ben as my assistant. so we both got registered. i bought the fancy tan shirts you get when your staff so i got to keep mine~!.

then we met up with our other roomie who just came in  incredible_crocodile when we went to get fooood n wondered about the con. eddy in suit and i showing them both the area as well as saying hi to more peeps. at this point i realized i know more people than i thought i did. then later i started drawing a couple door arts for people who wanted some in advanced. also hung out with  komodoryuu who hung out with us several times throughout the con which i like because hes cool. then we went to sleep heheh

FRIDAY: ben n i got up early to get ready for staffin. (ben REALLY needed coffee n i discovered i will too.)
so since we were new to artist alley stuff the initial run through was kinda on the fly showing us how to do things in real time. >.=.> made us a little nervous but we pulled through, figured out how to collect everyone's tax info, their price for the table and giving their receipts. but Friday was a sloppy mess lol. also security checking the door bailed and ben n i had to watch the door on the fly. (not our jobs btw) and bens eye problem was getting a real problem because of needing to see all the time. ben had to bail early which was ok to staff and they did give us a formal apology. which was cool of them. after that day we went to dennys, picked up our next roomie. then i went to a room party wit ha bunch of friends also gave them their door arts i drew for em. we hung out until the laptop that wasp laying music broke. n killed the room mood. so i left. wondered the con a bit then went back home to everyone asleep though ben said he was feeling like he was getting the chills. i was super worried that he was getting con crud already! his second con ever n already this! so he slept and i did to. stressful at first. but mellowed out later

SATURDAY: went by WAY smoother actually couldn't have been better! ben made a full recovery when he woke up. we both went to the con ops coffee in hand. artist ally signups was easier since everyone from friday signed up again. so we didn't really have to check tax info as much also the ally went way smoother too. security was there all the time. though we unfortunately had to turn down  chumbasket who's tax info didn't go though which bummed me out because im a big fan.

also got some actual art for ben n i from a new comer to the con.  emilythepenguin who was super fun to chat with n was really nice n bubbly. also met a staffer,  latexfox who we all got along which really well. especially ben! which is good because other than fritzy nobody we really know thats on staff so he made it easier for us n stuff. after den, ben i met up with  midekai and hung out. ate burgers in the room. then we all went to Tanuki con held across the street. i got really sentimental. seeing all my seattle friends in one spot and anging out with them. like i did before i moved. ben n i left before it got too pervy. (which happens easily) i had commissions to finish n ben was tired though i had some stuff to drink so i was kinda tipsy n sleepy. which what a super hard combo to do i couldn't barely stay awake while drawing stuff for  corvidius yet i STILL pulled it off. @.=.@

slept 3 hours lol

SUNDAY: was still feeling dizzy even after sleeping a little. ben n i did the same stuff in the morning. coffee and con ops set up. which btw made things run SOO smoothly instead of having signups up at the ally. since it was sunday only a few signed up again. so once the ally opened we were the only ones there. and the den was still locked. turns out most of the staff was still asleep for some other reasons (partying/exausted) so we were on our own for a little while. but ben n i got the hang of the job so well we handeled it well enough. fritzy came and got hotel staff to open the den soon n all was well!
alley went smoothly again. picked up art i bought and some con memorabilia. also had to go down to the hotel to checkout. which fortunately tool two minutes. then when i got back ben left early because he was riding back with ath who left at checkout. so i handled the alley alone for a but (no prob) then bumped into someone i wasn't expecting.  rottyboy! he was there for one day. went in to buy this werewolf head that he let me try on (was amazing and only makes me want a fursuit more @.=.@ then he was nice enough to offer me a ride back home since he also lives in portland. so that totally saved me several hours! i left the con at 4 and got home at 8 instead of 11 like if i took the busses.



so over all TL;DR version: RF2015 had some snags at the start. but over all was one of the best experiences ive had yet at a con!!! and ben enjoyed himself too which makes me SUPER happy. will definitely wanna be staff next year., and this time may have something to wear!!!

see ya!!!