Sharing a physical machine / without killing all my apps

I've created a user account for a friend who occasionally uses my laptop to surf the web. OS X is telling me that for a second user to login, I need to logout, kill all my open apps, close all files, etc.
Seems to me I ought to be able to suspend my login session - then allow my friend to login and surf the web - and then resume my session with apps and files open as I last worked on them. How/can I access "suspend login session" and "resume login session" functionality?
Thanks.
-ashish

System Preferences/Accounts
Check "Show fast user switching menu as:" and select how you want to display user names.
When you want to switch users, click on the user name in the upper right corner (next to the Spotlight icon).

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