Pifflefest/MiniLoisCon

Twas a very nice, if somewhat small, pifflefest/MiniLoisCon last night. coalboy was passing through Atlanta with her mother after taking mom to visit a friend in Florida. She (coalboy) and I are both on piffle and the Bujold list, lists that have a tradition of members meeting when possible. So I put out the word and got takers from 2 Bujold listees (filkferengi and Dawn Benton) and 1 piffler, Judith Costello. Judith called in the late afternoon to say she had put in 6 hours at the office and was wiped, so was not going to make it. (She's with the Canadian consulate here, and the G-8 summit preparations are fearsome.) But that left 4 of us to gather at coalboy's hotel at 7 PM.

We took over a conversation grouping of furniture off the bar area, and the piffling began. (No list prejudice here--filkferengi and Dawn can piffle with the best of them.) We talked about Bujold, Russian literature, mysteries, re-reading styles, math edutcation, pewtergryphon's party, politics (very briefly!), French literature, dialects in German and French and Spanish (I seem to be the only non-linguist in the group), speaking French with a Georgia accent, bookselling, David W*b*r, bawdy filk, and "listees I have met FTF". Somewhere in there we ordered a pizza from the hotel cafe and had it delivered to our conversation spot (I added a side salad), and we kept going. I got up about 10:30 saying that I needed to get home as my father is visiting, but then coalboy commented on the fit of my pants (loose--I thought I had on the size 12's, but these were the 14's. I hadn't noticed they had gotten really baggy...) and then we discussed diets in general and Weight Watchers in particular. We finally all got up and left around 11:20. Very nice evening all round.

Tomorrow I'm off to Durham for the nephew's graduation, returning Wednesday night. Must go pack soon...

WW, week 25

The pizza last night at the pifflefest/MiniLoisCon didn't hurt a bit--down 2.2 pounds, for a total of 36.4 pounds. More than I expected, and I'm just hoping next week won't be one of the "no change" weeks in compensation.

With the short trip to Durham coming up, I've done a good bit of shopping. I went out today to replace the baggy khakis I was wearing last night, and I ended up with a pair in size 10. That's not normal sizing though, as another style by the same manufacturer (Lee) were a little tight at size 12. Generally, though, 12's are good. Also over the last week or so, I've bought several summer blouses (to wear with jeans and khakis: i.e., work clothes) and a bathing suit. And the better fitting clothes bring on lots of compliments, even from the folks at work that see me 4 days a week. Good reinforcement behavior.