Hello, dear readers, and welcome to Thursday! I spent a fair bit of yesterday thinking it was already Thursday, so I’m a little discombobulated today. Still, the weekend is almost upon us, and it’s a long weekend, which is delightful.

Tomorrow night I’m flying out to Chicago for a quick weekend trip, and I’m very excited (and very grateful to my husband, who will be managing both dogs while I am gone). I have very few concrete plans at this point, but a handful of people I want to see and places I want to eat. I think it’s going to be good.

We’re still waiting to hear if the latest applicant for Mouse is going to schedule a meet & greet (last we heard the rescue was waiting on them to submit documentation confirming their building allowed dogs). She continues to be terrified of everything outside. She did let the folks in the office in our building pet her and give her treats this week, though, so maybe that’s progress.

Volunteering with my seminary’s booth at Pride last Saturday was delightful. I hadn’t been to Pride in over a decade, and being surrounded by so much beautiful queer joy and love was really affirming. On my way out I spotted a sad little anti-Pride protest of about 10 people, which was frustrating, but also…they were so much the minority that I almost missed them entirely. We are truly everywhere, which is a beautiful thing.

I think I’m going to leave this one here for the week. As always, I shall leave you with some doggo content: