Tonight, after work, I was at home reading. I had decided to get in a few chapters before the pajama dance, thinking that Ricardo would probably call me before. However, an hour before the dance, I was surprised when a knock came at the door, and... there was Ricardo! He even brought his pajamas with him. Apparently, we're good enough friends now that he thinks he can just stop by without calling first. And he'd be absolutely right about that. It's always nice to find an unexpected friend at the door. Since we had an hour to kill (and I'm assuming that this was his intention in arriving early), he challenged me to a Scrabble rematch, one-on-one, just me and him.

And hell, he beat me by 50 points. He went first, and the very first word he put down was a 7-letter word, "refrain", worth 76 points. He followed that up with the word "quark" on a double word score with a double letter score on the K for another whopping 46 points. I was left in the dust, slack-jawed. Ricardo's got some serious game. And some serious luck.

Then we went to the dance. To our amazement, they were actually playing dance music rather than bad hip-hop. However, the dance music was too strange for Ricardo, and he was looking for his absent friends, so we left in search of them. We entered their apartment and quickly got sucked into watching TV and talking with them. Finally, we decided just to stay and play Flux, so we went and got my game, watching Kill Bill 2 on TV as we played the longest game of Flux ever. And I found out that Ricardo is squeamish. During one of the commercial breaks, a news flash came on about a wanted person, a latino male who had 6 burglaries under his belt. Ricardo's comment on this was "He actually looks kind of cute." I joked to him: "Maybe that's why he's wanted." Ba-bum-tish. But Ricardo is really slow with jokes and went on to say, "No, he's wanted for burglary." So I had to tell him it was a joke, and when it finally clicked for him, he said "Oh", threw back his head and laughed. "Sorry, I'm bad with jokes." No kidding, I thought, but his lack of humor was of an amusing sort. It's not that he doesn't have a sense of humor, he's just slow on the uptake, and it's funny to see how long it takes for him to understand that we're joking.

Tomorrow, Ricardo wants to go to the beach, so me, him, and the Porter group, and whoever else (maybe Toro and Kevin Y.?) are going to go in the afternoon. After that, my friend Silvia is coming, and me, her and Ricardo are going to go to a show. Then Silvia is spending the night at my place, since the bus stops running too early for her to get back. Should be a pretty fun day. I'm really excited and happy to have so many things to do with so many good friends. And then on Sunday, Toro wants me to take him to the Kresge Swing.

Pretty busy and excellent weekend, if I don't say so myself.