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I spent the majority of the evening last night working on my "travelogue," or in this instance simply email photo digest, about Seattle Pride 2026. It covered Pride in the Park on Saturday June 6; and then everything else was the Pride events over this past weekend: Trans Pride and the World Cup "Pride Match" on Friday; PrideFest Capitol Hill and the Indigiqueer Festival on Pier 62 on Saturday; the Pride Parade, the TPS Pride After Party, and PrideFest Seattle Center on Sunday.
I noted that I had forgotten about the possibility of the TPS Pride After Party when estimating the number of Pride photo albums in this year's
Pride 2026 Flickr collection. I'm already at 9 albums, and assuming I attend both Tacoma Pride next month and Alki Beach Pride the month after as planned, in the end this will have
eleven albums, thereby matching
the record set in 2024.
That won't even be the extent of it when it comes to Pride albums I'll have this year—I'll have several for World Pride Amsterdam, but those will all be in their own collection(s). That said, I do have
this collection of
all Pride Parades I have ever attended, regardless of city. This now includes Seattle, Vancouver B.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Sydney, and soon Amsterdam. One of these years I think we should go down to Portland Pride, which we have never done, and happens in July. It would be fun to do that at least once.
Also, Shobhit and I have basically committed to traveling to whichever city is hosting World Pride whenever it happens. It was the reason for the timing of our return to Sydney in 2023, the first World Pride we ever attended; it's why we went to Washington, D.C. last year (and thank god we went when we did, before President Fuckwit began seriously fucking up the landmarks in that city); it's why we're going to Amsterdam this year and why we'll go to Cape Town in 2028. Barcelona is likely to host in 2030, so we'll then go there (although apparently other cities still bidding include Bangkok, and London; if either of those cities prevail then we'll go there—honestly now I'm kind of rooting for London, which I really want to visit; I'd be thrilled to go to any of them though).
So, I never thought I'd ever have a so-called "Five Year Plan," but I do have a tentative one for travel! I have lists of between three and five desired travel destinations per year now through 2030, which includes all of these World Pride destinations. Other international aspirations include a short return to Vancouver, B.C. in 2027; Iceland in 2028; Australia at the end of 2028 and beginning of 2029; and Hong Kong in 2029. We may combine a trip to Hong Kong, the skyscraper capital of the world, with Singapore. This is all in addition to a bunch of domestic travel plans as well, maybe most notably a trip to Boston and Provincetown for our anniversary in June of next year.
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Shobhit made dinner while I was writing, calling out to me several times to ask if I was done or how much longer I was going to be. How the hell can I say how long it's going to take me to write something? The only writing I can reliably time is a movie review, which on average takes me about an hour to write. He made a mixed vegetable dish with rice and scratch-made parathas that were of course delicious.
He went out for a walk later in the evening, and I almost went with him, but then I changed my mind. He was obsessing over pending charges listed by both Virginia Mason and UW Medicine for my hospitalization last month. I still haven't made any payments on any of that shit, because there are still updates with insurance happening, and certain things Shobhit thinks we should appeal. Anyway, he started to get all pissy for truly no good reason at all, which made me lose any interest in going on a walk, and by the time he stopped looking at all this stuff it was 9:00 and I didn't want to head out for a walk that late. I was in bed by the time he got back.
If only 20/20 Cycle were open on Mondays, I could have gone to pick up my bike. Alas, they don't open again until Wednesday, which means I'll have to do that instead of going to a movie I had hoped to go see. Oh well; it was at a SIFF Cinema theater so it wouldn't have been covered by my AMC subscription anyway. Everything else is shit pickings this week. I won't likely go to a movie again until the weekend, if even that; Saturday is the 4th and is wide open right now but we'll see. I have a double feature planned with Alexia on Sunday. It's all good, though; after the action-packed days of Pride and the whirlwind I'm sure the trip to the Netherlands is going to be, I'm happy to have a few days in between where I can just kind of chill.
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[posted 12:34pm]
