"Know just when to fold"

Our freshman year of college, Lisa lived with her Mom in her Grandma's duplex just on the other side of Scatterfield off of University Boulevard. It was 2002...seven years ago...I remember a few things about her time in the duplex. We killed lots of spiders. Two or three every time I was over there. On halloween, a kid came by in a Harry Potter costume. Doing homework on Sunday afternoons on her mom's computer. Her mom cooking barbecued chicken. Spending the night there after tearing my ACL, since there was no way I was getting into my loft...

And sometime during that year, Lisa and I started cutting out the Papa John's coupons from the Andersonian and ordering our $6.99 large pizza on a weekly basis and watching Friends...and eventually Scrubs as well. Partially because of our love for pizza, I suppose, and partially because we didn't spend a ton of time together during the week throughout college, pizza night became a tradition. Something we both looked forward to every week. Papa John's and Scrubs. We kept this up and as we moved to Michigan it became Hungry Howie's, and we continued to have our pizza night. So tonight, in honor of Scrubs finale, we ordered our Papa John's and sat down to watch what was meant to be the last episode of Scrubs ever. This season has been a marked improvement over the last few and the finale was superb. The ending with Peter Gabriel's Book of Love playing over JD looking into the future made me smile...and made me happy to be young. To be able to look forward to the future. With family. With kids. And with friends.

And to pizza nights as well...they will continue with some other show taking the place of Scrubs. But I will always have a place for the show that we watched every year as we grew from kids into adults.