we never met, you and i

cj and i hung out the past 2-3 days. first she came over after hanging out with kyle for a few .. it had been a few months since id last seen her, so it was wonderful! the next day kyle, jeff, and i drove to bellbrook to pick her up. we hung out at her house for a few and had coffee, very relaxing! we left for dayton to go to the greek festival, which was fun. there was (unnecessarily) loud greek music from a live band, playing (i think) a lute and a bouzouki. we walked around the festival, which was unfortunately mostly shops and stands selling domino's "greek pizza," which just had olives on it (lame!), or greek beer, whatever that may consist of! i did talk to an older greek woman, reading the greek on the picture frames she was selling. she was pretty excited about my pronunciation! it made me want to study greek more .. just like talking to the russians at crystal lake made me want to study russian more .. or meeting claudia in atlanta made me want to study german more .. ah! we stopped at a mediterranean restaurant and watched arab music videos and ate falaffel, then went to the halal market to buy lebanese and turkish pastries. pistacchio baklava! back at cjs again, we threw a football and drank tea. we walked to the arboretum down the street from her house and got sorta creeped out (i know i did!) in the dark. needless to say, it was a lot of fun. the next day cj was having a rough day at work, so she came to springfield. i rode to meer her and kyle at the state theatre at 11 pm, but it was starting to storm, so i rode home before i even met up with them. drag! cj came over afterwards and we watched the science of sleep. the next day we went behind vernon murphy baseball fields and to the reservoir. a butterfly landed on her finger.


we then went to the hickory with my mom and had a white greek pizza (cant get away from it!) with spinach, tomato, red onion, and olive oil. phenomenal! yesterday and this morning i continued to weed out items before i move back to columbus. i got a few packages together for jill and shona, and i rode them to the ups store. i was pretty impressed with the fact that both boxes fit into my seagull bag, furthermore that it rode very comfortably to the ups store! i knew the bag was amazin', but this is pushing it. here are some fun pics:
pretty cool! today im riding bikes with kyle, micah, amber, ?, to yellow springs, where we're meeting up with sam agarwal and ?. im so excited! i have this secret (guilty pleasure) to show sam my dreads and how theyve grown, though its really only been 3 months since ive seen her. im going to clean up a bit and get ready for the ride. i wish id taken the strawberries i found in the dumpster at aldi's ... bottom feeders unite!