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Another swim meet weekend. Warmups at 7:30am, first race start at 8:45am, second race at 10:55am and third at 12:20pm. Cooldown, byebyes, shakes and fries with friends at the St James means not gonna be home before 2pm. Repeat again tomorrow. Glad A is taking first half of it while I do second half.

It’s been interesting to observe how completely out of news Pete Buttigieg has gone. There was a time where he was a regular on Fox News, and even after the election he seemed to be a strong voice against Trump – and then suddenly he seems to have gone away. I won’t blame him if he has decided its not worth raising red flags as a gay person but I wish he had the aggressiveness of Pritzker or Newsom coz he’s the one person who I think also has the charisma of Mamdani in conveying the same information. I won’t blame him if he feels this is not worth it but god I want to see more of Pete, and more aggressive Pete.

Yesterday I was missing my mom a lot in evening. I was by myself when A had taken her parents out to mall and R was at swim. I was eating a yummy dinner that my MIL cooked in afternoon and it stuck me suddenly that I don’t quite remember how my own mom’s home cooked food tasted like. I remember it in my brain but I just had that intense desire to feel that taste again in my mouth. And it just made me sad thinking about it – the last time I had mom’s cooking was in 2010, 6 months before she passed away. You never really get over grief of losing a parent.