a great thing happened this week

an old friend of mine came to town to interview at a hospital as a candidate for their med school program. but we actually didn't talk very much about that. we went to the bookstore, where all we looked at were cards, we got indian food which was not too spicy (anyone who orders the medium is a fool, and is going to end up on the street corner with frostbite in their extremities and the seventh circle of hell in their mouth), we went home to feed the cat where my friend was very generous to insist that his room is just as messy as our house (no way), we went to the nickelcade (the japanese game with video instructions, the biking game from which my entire body still hurts because the bikes are made for children, the dance dance revolution for your hands, a little gambling, a 3 nickel shooting game, more gambling, more nickels, tekken, more gambling. the amount of nickel-gambling was almost terrifying. we couldn't stop, and then when we were out of nickels, we waited around the machine on the off chance that some might just fall. thank goodness all we had were nickels. then we went to cash in our tickets. i told jake i would get him a prize, and i was just going to get a parachute man that we could throw off the bridge or something and then spend the rest on candy, but GUESS WHAT. the parachute men were NOT regular parachute men. they were star wars figurines, with parachutes! weird, because i don't think anyone ever had a parachute in star wars because they were all in space, but still cool, and even though i didn't have enough tickets the guy let me get one of each because i told him that for my birthday this year i went to the star wars exhibit at omsi. the COOLEST.), then we went to the bagdad for a delicious beer. all in all, a terrific time. nothing bad happened, everything good happened, and we both walked away feeling awesome about being friends.