coll & fiones take on the world [geneseo]!

after what seemed like a never ending heatwave (ninety+ every day), the rain is finally coming down! it's actually pretty calming. walking up court st. last night i was getting soaked, but it was nice.

things are going going in geneseo, ny. as always, i cannot believe how fast the time is going. it's already the end of the second week! whoa! the weeks have been busier than ever, and the weekends filled with walks around the village and down court st. colleen & i walked through campus last night (after trying to register people to vote at late knight- no one was there), and it was a crazy flashback of last year. emily wasn't in her dorm though, and we weren't walking to matt's. the boys (julian, noah, isaac... and their five other housemates, yep five!) recently taught me how to play this game called 'spoons'. it's super fun, but seeing as i'm pretty bad at competitive games, you can imagine my face [my smile], when i realized that for the first two rounds i had been playing completely wrong. it's still fun though!

this friday was quite eventful. a bunch of us tabled for the anti-war group (spsi), and then a few of us (colin, tim a., tim m., colleen and me) met with ken cooper to talk about the idea of starting a community garden on campus- it was super great, and we're all really excited! at five, about seven of us biked to wegmans. colin gave me a bike (it's a free spirit!) that he had found on the side of the road. i love it, but the gears are definitely not the greatest (kinda sounds like the pedals/gears are going to fall off), so trying to get up north st. was quite the work out. tim m. came to the rescue though! advising me as to which gears i should try, it was great. ("thanks tim! thanks tim!") i wasn't able to make it to the spsi meeting on thursday, because i had to go rochester with phil, bob and co. to get some tips on polling and gotv, but apparently a bunch of new faces stopped by! when i came to the table on friday, i saw that someone was named winston and got super excited! when i met him later on in the day (he came with us on critical mass) the following encounter ensued:
"hi!"
"hi, i'm winston."
"when i saw your name on the sign-up sheet, i got all excited and said 'oo! his name is winston! i want to meet him!' it's such a cool name! my name is fiona."
"that's a cool name too."
"yep. we're both unique."
as you can imagine, winston and i stayed close together whilst biking so that i could say his name over & over- i really like him a lot! he's a creative writing and black studies major.

later that night, after attending a potluck at colin's (the food was DELICIOUS!), colleen & i walked back, and after trying to unlock my door i realized i had taken the wrong key! gaby was in rochester for the weekend visiting her boyfriend matt, so i ended up spending the night at coll's. we went to bed pretty early, after i made her watch snippets of 'gothika' and 'the twilight zone movie'. the latter of which i have seen on many an occasion. it's so strange. i'm so thankful for colleen. we have been feeding off each other quite a bit, and it's been really nice. we were going over voter reg. forms last night, profanity and insane laughter followed- especially when colleen saw the result of last year's primaries:
"ONLY SEVEN PEOPLE VOTED??!!
SEVEN FIONA?????!!!!"
i love her so.

the next morning i called julian to see if he could try to pick my lock, because i wanted to wait to call dominic till i absolutely had to. julian and his roommate igor (super cool kid), tried for almost forty-five minutes (all while sweating bullets!) to open my door, but sadly, were unsuccessful. and of course, being the sweethearts that they are, left with numerous "sorry fiones!"'s, even though they had nothing to apologize for. eventually i worked up the courage to call dominic whose response was "you need to bring your keys around with you. you'd be out of lock if i wasn't around this weekend."

taryn's coming to visit today! i'm happy! we were going to go for a hike in letchworth, but now that it's so rainy we'll have to figure something else out. we're all going to make dinner (taryn will make something delicious!)- it'll be great! FARI's having their first meeting tonight! i decided to move the infoSHARE time a little earlier, so that we could all attend FARI, since they really want us to come. i hope everything goes well for them!
well, this was a super long entry. i guess they usually are. 'she drives me crazy' just came up on shuffle on iTunes! =) i made cooks yesterday! they got a little burned, but other than that, pretty good!

tgvl is going well. the women's groups are chuggin' along. community garden/clothingSHARE take 2. democratic fundraiser this friday, 175th anniversary parade the following week. things are good! gaby and i are great together, as well. i'm thankful for her.
in other news, emily's in france! woo!

i hope everyone is well. i miss you all so.
talk soon.

all my love. <3