I had the chance to hang out with Sonas on Wednesday night. He brought over some wine and cig­ars just as a chance to relax. He grad­u­at­ed last month and is look­ing for a job before he looks for a law school. The thing is, he’s not tied down by any­thing at all. His girl­friend is in Seattle, fin­ished her stud­ies and work­ing as a phar­ma­cist, but he has no plans on mov­ing there. He’s per­fect­ly fine with mov­ing back home, out west, or even over­seas to find a job. I have to admire that kind of free­dom, espe­cial­ly since he’s in a rela­tion­ship. There’s a trust there that real­ly goes beyond most of the oth­er rela­tion­ships that I know. We end­ed up order­ing in and hang­ing out on the bal­cony. I can’t relate to him very well because I don’t know much about him, but I can def­i­nite­ly say that he’s an easy per­son for me to talk to, which is a rar­i­ty in itself.

Yesterday I had the chance to hang out with Pat, and just kick back with some Soul Calibur II. We were pret­ty even­ly matched, although I had the upper hand because I actu­al­ly own the game and have a steady char­ac­ter. We’d real­ly learn each oth­ers moves, so it end­ed up being a game of reflex­es and feints, instead of but­ton mash­ing like it is against most peo­ple. He’s the only per­son I know who used to be a hard­core gamer the way I used to be, so it was great to be able to talk about fight­er styles and relate on that lev­el.