Risk, for those who don't know, is a board game of global domination. In the version we play, everyone is distributed an equal amount of cards, each with a 'province' on it. The board itself is a world map divided into 36 'provinces'. Everyone divides their little armies among all the provinces they're dealt. They give their cards back to the dealer, keeping one card, which is their 'secret headquarters'. Once that province is captured, the player that captured it takes the card. The point of the game is to collect everyone's secret headquarters. So, we played that for two hours. Alan had the most headquarters cards, but I had captured the most provinces.
As soon as Avril and Maureen were leaving, I got a telephone call from my old buddy, CJ. She wanted to hang out at some point. I had wanted to call her since I got home, but was hesitant as I knew she was going to camp at some point during the summer and didn't want to seem like the uncaring friend by not knowing when it was. I practically begged her to come over, because I had all the new music and clothes and sort of wanted to show them off. My unplanned afternoon suddenly became totally booked.
CJ showed up about an hour later. We talked like hooligans for a long time, never shutting up. She told me I had finally lost the bet we had made earlier in the year and I now owed her a box of Oreos. Then we conspiracy theorized about Brin, just joking around and things like that. For a long time, I had been forcing scenes from a movie called The Linguini Incident upon her, so we finally watched the whole thing together. (It's got Bowie in it, that's probably the only reason she agreed to watch it.)
We listened to records, watched vines, ate chocolate cereal dipped in chocolate pudding and just all around had a crazy time until she had to leave. I hadn't noticed how much I missed hanging out with friends until she came over. I really miss seeing them every day.
Don't tell anyone. ;)
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