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— पांच हजार आठ सौ इक्कीस — Yesterday I rode my bike home from work, taking a slight detour to the Central Library to return my checked-out DVD copy of the 2005 Pride & Prejudice. I made chai for Shobhit and myself once I got home, while Shobhit fried parathas to have with the last of the cabbage and potato dish he had made. Not my favorite, but edible. It didn't taste bad at all actually, and I don't often care for cabbage. I spent the evening just chilling at home. This will make it the least eventful evening of my entire week. Tonight is Action Movie Night at the Braeburn Condos theater. Tomorrow will largely be at-home chilling as well, but I also need to do as much of the packing as I can for Friday. I work only half a day Friday, and hope to leave home in Shobhit's car by 1:00, if not sooner. Gabriel, Garret, Andy, Brian and I will all meet for drinks at a place in Gig Harbor before we all head to the AirBnB we're staying at on Fox Island. I hope to get there early enough to drive across the bridge and get out at the small park by its south end, and get some photos, before meeting for drinks. Beyond that, of course, will be the entire weekend on Fox Island. I'm really looking forward to it. Given a choice I would have spaced it further apart from our trip to D.C., but it's okay. It was the one weekend in May that worked for all five of us. And it's good we didn't plan it for earlier because Gabriel got sick a couple of weeks ago. Honestly what I'm looking forward to is just a relaxing weekend in a serene, wooded island environment. That vibe is going to be way different from the vacation-bustle we're likely to have in D.C., which is also fine. I've got like 21 items on my checklist for that trip, so far. And that doesn't even include most of the World Pride events occurring the following weekend. — पांच हजार आठ सौ इक्कीस — — पांच हजार आठ सौ इक्कीस — I don't have much else to tell you today. It's an unseasonably hot day, I guess I could mention that—forecast 82°. I could have worn shorts today, theoretically, except it was still 56° for my bike ride to work this morning. I wore my hoodie, which will be stuffed in my backpack for the ride home. Oh. Speaking of my bike rides, I was a little shocked by something I saw yesterday riding home. I pulled up to the red light at Broad on Elliott, riding on Elliott due to my detour to the lirbary, and I looked to the left and was shocked to see basically a young woman's bare ass. She was walking along, in sunglasses, and otherwise wearing only a black two-piece thong bikini. Just this cool and calm, bare ass walking down the street. If I had my phone handy I would have taken a picture of her from behind, just so I could send it to . . . let's say: my straight friend. It was one of the rare instances where I found myself thinking, if I were straight, I would find that incredibly hot. Hell, if a young man—a fit one, at least, and this woman was fit—were casually walking down the street in a thong, I'd probably just about cream my jeans. When it's not Pride and not along 4th Avenur or at Seattle Center, though, it's far less likely that a man would ever been seen like that in public anywhere, though. Granted it's not likely to see a woman like that either, but we still live in a world where something like that is more likely with a young woman than with a young man. Either way, I saw her and though: Holy shit. So I guess you could call that the highlight of my past 24 hours. And it was a hot woman! — पांच हजार आठ सौ इक्कीस — [posted 12:33pm]