I started the day off, by heading out the Cafe Med here in Salt Lake City, where I had invited the general public to come have lunch with the contestants. I had figured on roughly 15 people, and ended up with 25, so the restaurant was pretty busy. This party, helped me score a few gift cards for my travel auction basket, while I was at it.
One of the guests came strait from the airport, Mr. South East Olympus Leather from Florida. Who has the potential to be my competition at the International Olympus Leather Competition in L.A., should I manage to win the Rocky Mountain title tomorrow. He and his girl are also staying the weekend at my place. He's calling me on a lot of my shit, so I like him a lot.
After the lunch, I had coffee with more people from the community, and then headed off to meet with a tattoo artist named Wee from Illustrated Life Tattoo, who I had met the previous night, scouting the venue of the competition. She had agreed to donate to my basket, and gave me a beautiful piece of flash art; A fantastic last second score!
I got about two hours to decompress and get ready for the "Meet and Greet" mixer at the venue. Turn out was good for 6pm-8pm, I made the rounds made sure everyone knew who I was, and managed to win my "Quiz show" style face off with my competition, where we answered Leather history questions, which helped determine the order we would be performing in for the competition. I will be going 4th, the final position, and my peer competition will be going 1st. Which is great for me, due to a last second fantasy changes forced us both to ask the same person to be on stage with us. Having said yes to us both, there was certainly potential that the wardrobe change could have been a snag, had we been seeded back to back.
The mixer broke up and we all headed our own ways to change wardrobe as needed and head off to the play party. Fetish image is still a part of the party, so my getting there an hour and a half late was not the best idea, but I settled in, had some conversations with friends I had been trying to have for weeks, and got in a couple of scenes. The later of which was one of the most impressive "no strike" single tail scenes I think I've ever performed. Woof!
Everyone has been fantastic, and supportive, I met people from San Diego, LA, Denver, Boise, Tampa, Central Florida, and I really enjoyed the experience.
I'm getting up in about six hours to start the next phase and complete the most intimidating part of the competition, the panel interview.
My next post is either my celebrating a title and getting ready for International, or my thoughts on what went wrong if the unthinkible were to happen.
Here we go!
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