Arisia Part II

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So nihonjin and I finish setting up Thursday night, and finally go to bed around 2am.

Get up Friday morning around 8:30-9ish. She goes in to take a shower, and I take off to deal with more setup issues. I purchase bateries for the FRS radios we'll be using all weekend. That takes a while. I get back and Open up the Ops Desk at 10AM. We get the key and start organizing. It turns out we don't have enough power cords, nihonjin goes out to buy some. Allen and his wife show up and help with setup.

B shows up and we get to go to dinner with a long time friend of hers who also happens to be one of the guests of honor at the con. fuzcat is also able to join us.

The stress starts to build when we get back. The usual con CRISISIES. No biggie, it was somewhere at this point where nihonjin switched over to the security desk. I finally get everything settled for the overnight shift, and I set up an air mattress I brought for nihonjinand go off for a bit I see some of the "SissorKiss" concert I see lachesis and Skaven. After a bit B and I head to bed. I get up the next morning around 8:30-9ish again. head down and relieve the overnight crew S had managed to find good gopher help for that shift. Note to self: get that person's contact info from claudia_.

The Sat morning stress startedd almost right away. The day proceded apace. I made it out of Ops once or twice but not for very long. Just basically for meals. One of the few times I had gotten out I ended up having to deal with a situation between a gopher and our security staff. Lets just say it wasn't pretty, and kick the stress machine into HIGH GEAR. It was finally resolved. Was supposed to have dinner with B, A, and her SO. But those plans just didn't work out. The wait at the resturaunts was just too long. B brought a meal back for me, but as I was eating dinner The problems REALLY began. The overnight person who worked the first night didn't come around for the second, due to a mis-understanding on my part. Opps. I begin to make contingency plans.

The goffer from before who was still in a hightened state of agitation, was given something to do that normally wouldn't have been all that bad, BUT (Oh come on now. You knew there'd be a "but" here) what he did was move a bunch of personal belonging of some people, and when they came back looking for them got them all worked up when they couldn't find their stuff. He then brought the worked up people to me to fix their problem. since he can't deal with the security folks from feeling persecuted. Ok I deal, and help them find most of their stuff. (It was under a table.)

As I'm finishing up this, and talking to the security desk person; She collapses. I call the on-duty EMT, and we get her evaluated. ( I mentioned STRESS right? ). While we're dealing with this the next shift Security Desk person comes in. The place that had been her home for a number of years had burnt down and killed some tufts student that was currently living there. As we're finishing up the reports from the last two incidents We get to have one more (which I can't mention in any more detail for a variaty of reasons), and we go on a hunt for the apporiot people to deal with this. YAY!

I discuss the contigency Ops plans (Close the desk and consolidate the communication functions into the security desk.) with the approriot people. Sec Dpt head, and one of the ConChair assistants. ( I avoid dealing with the Ops Div head as its been a strain to deal with her as well, fortunately for me I am unable to reach her by her main contact method ).

I pop my head into one of the parties with B, but neither of us is much in the mood for it so we head off to bed.

I wake up sunday morn and go reopen Ops desk. At one point when I step away from the desk I come back to find my Div head has given the problem gopher a radio and has him "helping out", okay well at least this lets me keep him out of trouble. The problem is that he wants to be like the cool kids and try to setup his radio with a headset, on our main chanel which causes a bit of feel back right into my ear, I start to get snappy. The Arisia problem child from years past starts getting snippy on the radio, and this is where I realize I NEED A BREAK I get Allen and the on shift people to cover for a bit. figure I'll go take a nap get some air or something to eat.Things get a little fuzzy here B, ironfinch, grovegoddess, and I head out at this point I realize I need to lie down ( I think ), and I head up to the room while they go get something to eat. I realize I'm going to be off-line longer than I had made arrangments for so I decide I need to contact a reliable staff member to cover for me. I try razing someone on the radio. I'm so frazzled at this point that I forget about the frieght elevators, and walk up to the 15th floor to the Staff Den. by the time I make it there I'm burnt toast. I poke my head in and half to pull out to try and compose myself. I manage to get Joan's attention tell her I need to go off-line, that someone needs to contat one of the SWAT TEAM (These are reliable staff who've held high positions before), and I loose it. I head back to the room and crash.

It's late more tomorrow...