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Back from Oxonmoot. It was more fun than I was expecting it to be, mostly thanks to Monty, a 15-year-old squeeing elf fangirl. Recovered from being ill at last, which was nice, although I still appear to have roughly half a cold. My poor tienelle was a little put-upon as I've been a right misery for the last week or so (people have taken to calling me Stressypig), and was still somewhat demanding.

Now I need to wander around the house with a Psion cataloguing what I've left here (and possibly packing it all up, although I don't know - maybe I should ring my parents again and ask) so I don't panic when I can't find it at home. Have to go home today (my parents' house needs a name so I can refer to it as something other than 'home', because it isn't really 'home' any more - it's just their house) to get Naath back to her parents.

tienelle ran off Edinburgh-wards earlier this morning (well, currently more of the running around the Cavendish and town in order to get things sorted out before he leaves), hence me being awake and having time to stall merrily.

I've been thinking about diarying lately; I haven't really kept a very good diary over the summer, because I generally only manage to keep it on my Psion and only manage to type stuff on my Psion during 'downtime', i.e. time I can't get to a computer, like on busses and in lectures. I like having a full and complete diary, but I'm beginning to be a little too upset when I'm missing time, and I'm thinking maybe it's becoming a bit of an unhealthy obsession. OTOH, it is really useful to have a decent record of the past; it shows up all kinds of interesting patterns. OTTH, I'd quite like to do NaNoWriMo again this year, and actually give it a decent go, which would necessitate writing instead of diarying in the times I get for diarying. Any opinions?

In which I make a predictable post about losing weight

I am fat. Now, nobody is to say 'you're not fat' or 'I'm fatter than you', because although it is true that I am not clinically obese and many people are fatter than me, I am carrying rather more than a few pounds over. I am, in fact, ten stone, which is a good half stone more than I should ever be, and it shows. I don't fit any of my jeans. I need to lose weight.

Apparently I shall lose all my excess pounds if I go for an hour's walk every day. I plan to try this, although I have no idea how it will work in term time (I'm presuming for then this means an hour more than the hour I do anyway going in and out of town, and term tends to be short on spare hours). I was vaguely planning to do an hour's swimming a week, as an 'on top of the walking I do anyway' thing, but the plans were quite vague as I'm not particularly conveniently situated for any swimming pools, driving to them seems to be missing the point a little, and I have to find the Motor Proctor on a full moon Tuesday with a following wind (half an hour from 2-2:30 one day a week, or 6-6:30 a couple of others which gives me that little missing-Hall problem) before I have permission to car around Cam anyhow. And I am confidently informed that I don't swim fast enough to lose any weight by it, even though this is because I Have No Muscles and hence am actually putting in a fair amount of effort to not move very far.

Does anyone have any Top Tips For Losing Weight? I haven't consciously decided I need to lose weight before; it's just sort of happened when it needed to. But I have been A Big Lazy Blob over the summer, having gone into it needing to shed a few pounds, and now it's getting kind of serious.