I love hanging out with Julie. I met her when she and my good friend Greg started dating sophomore year of at MSU and I can honestly say that I can't remember a single time where I was with Greg and though, "Aw man, you're girlfriend is coming out with us?" She's that freaking cool. Julie is a sorority girl, but she's not uptight and bitchy. She's beautiful, but she doesn't shove it in your face. Julie is the kind of girl that you want your friend to date, and lucky for me, one of my friends did.
A great memory I have with Julie is a pretty recent one when she, Greg (post-dating), and I were all hanging out at MSU just a few weeks before I'm writing this. That was the first time I saw Julie in quite awhile, so I was pretty excited for us all to hang out. Before we went to the bar we hung out at Greg's place where we played some music (Julie has a pretty great taste in music, which was a pleasant surprise), and drank some booze before going out to Rick's. We played some nude photo hunt, which Julie was into (another surprise), then played some quarters as well which, as anyone who has played quarters knows, is always a good way to have some fun. We probably drank a little too much that night, as I'm sure Julie will attest to, but while we were in a bit of a drunken haze, I did have a moment with Julie which showed me that my opinion of her is exactly where it should be and also reaffirmed my belief that this is the exact kind of girl I want Greg to be with when we're old enough to start having dinner parties.
Despite thinking that she's a pretty awesome lady, I don't really know Julie that well at all, but that night I think I learned more about her than any time before and it made me think something that I've only really thought about a select few other friends' girlfriends: "I really hope they get married." There are some people who come into a friend's life, barge in almost uninvited and start a relationship with no willingness to honor the past, and make you feel isolated and don't hide they think you're the one intruding. Then there are people who walk in with a smile, get to know the friend as well as the friend's life before them, and in a matter of time it's as if that person has always been there. Julie is the latter.
Cheers to Julie, a great lady who I hope will be sticking around for a long time.
-Andrew
