So, we started Sunday with Boymeat's Foot Fetishism workshop ("It Ain't Just for Botoms Anymore").

This was a great workshop. Boymeat tells great stories (which are occasionally better since I know one of the people in it), tells them well, and knows what he's talking about. He can also just be damn funny. :) I learned a lot and I think I probably retained more of that than I did in any other workshop. Of course, knowing a person or two who likes having attention given to their feet helps. I haven't actually used any of the techniques on Sidney yet, but that's partly because she asked me to. Sometimes, that sort of thing will a) make me contrary and/or b) give me a bit of performance anxiety. At the moment, though, I'm feeling inclined to give it a shot...

Anyway, I had a great time. So much so, in fact, that I almost wished that I'd gone to his Watersports workshop the day before. Almost, but not quite. I think the Satyr pretty muched summed up my feelings about the subject back in Monterey last week.

After that was Pat Califia's "How To Top (for People Who Usually Don't)", which was interesting and very audience interactive. I'm not sure how much I actually retained, but I'm sure most of it sunk in. Pat's a fantastic talker with a good sense of humor. We had a lot of fun.

Afterwards, I wandered around with Brehen's hat on my head and shared a smoke with Pandora and also briefly with Boymeat. I also got to hear people rave about how awesome the first part of Midori's Humiliation Play workshop was. Another instance where I almost wish I'd chosen to attend that instead.

So, finally, there was the panel on "Taking the Sting Out of Non-Monogamy," which was more interesting for some people rather than others. I enjoyed it and it gave me a lot of perspective, especially since some of the people on the panel were people I'd only barely gotten to know previously. (Can I just tell you how quickly any minor jealousy feelings go away when you realize one of the people your partner plays with has a wife, a mortgage a gaggle of kids, and is speaking in front of you about how important their marriage is and how hard they work at it? And, on top of all that, they're just cool?). Someone in the audience asked what a single person's motivation would be for getting involved with a non-monagamous couple and while the panel answered it sufficiently, I'm tempted to think I could have answered it either better or more completely the first time. (No, I'm not going to give you the answer here.) All in all, very enlightening.
Oh, and the winning quote of that little panel was, "Polyamory does not equal enlightenment." That got a well-deserved chuckle, I think.

My other alternative in this timeslot (since Humiliation was 2 parts and you had to attend the 1st to attend the 2nd) was Lolita's "Age Play for Consenting Adults," which I'd definitely considered, but figured the NM panel was slightly more relevent to my life at the moment. I certainly hope they had fun, since there seemed to be very few of them when I'd gone up for breakfast both mornings. Still, I'd heard from numerous sources that Lolita is an awesome instructor.

And that was it, basically. We'd negotiated a later check-out time due to have a workshop presenter in our room and Pandora and I got together every stitch that belonged to the three of us, packed and were ready to rock & roll right on time.

So, all in all it was a great weekend. Had an awesome time and it's definitely the sort of thing I think I'd like to do again in the future.

Now, that night we had a small dinner of eight, but we'll see how I feel about even trying to jot that down at all...