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okay some quick notes before i get to yapping… i don’t know if i should find a consistent way to address each person or if i should just keep everything general? i know it makes it easier to read but also it could eliminate some secrecy soer if you appear frequently in ken’s bars posts… don’t be afraid to send me a text. in addition, i wish the weekly posts were just titled differently? so maybe i’ll do a little poll to see how we like that. idk “recap” is just boringggg but also it keeps everything organized. okay that’s all j lemme know all thoughts! and follow kens bars insta… or else ❤

Monday: missing milk carton children

error request not found: i have searched. far and wide. for ANY proof that i existed this day, breathed this day, participated in this day, but quite literally to no avail. i don’t know what happened. if you saw me on March 18th, 2024 please let me know because it wasn’t me. my apologies. i truly have no clue where i was. i know i went to bed at 8 pm so tuesday does start pretty early, sorry again.

Tuesday: what do y’all know about an all nighter

i woke up at a smooth midnight and then regretted every decision i had made up until this point. cause why in the whole wide world am i starting my day at midnight. i felt like that one girl on tik tok who wakes up at 3:26 every morning. i finally dragged myself out of bed around 12:30 and got to work on accounting. i typically would take notes for every chapter that would be on the exam and then afterwards i would review the actual exam topics… but we did not have time for that. the exam was on chapters 4-8 and luckily i finished chapter 4’s notes like a month ago so i read chapter 4 and then chunked out every exam concept into 45 minute increments until it was 5 am.

hello practice! idk if i’m being punished for last week? but the temperatures dropped. and like not just a little bit? elsa herself was kidnapped and brought to dc. i’m exaggerating because we didn’t get snow but i was definitely contemplating just barricading myself in the training room. 

i’m glad i finally decided to go outside because a lot of my teammates were talking about last week’s post which was super sweet : ) i love when you guys like ask about things i did or said. normally it’s relating to your own selves… which is cool too. fs. 

after practice i skipped lift to review 3 practice problems during breakfast which definitely helped a lot. i headed over to school of business around 9:20? to acquire a calculator from my professor and then i sat down to tackle this exam. 

lemme tell y’all. it wasn’t horrible? there was one question where i definitely had no clue what i was doing. but i finished right at the end of class. here’s where things take a SHARP TURN: my friend got a 49 when she turned in her exam… and in this moment i debated on just walking out? because i don’t deserve that seriously wtf you guys. then she announced the class average was a 46.44! oh! OHHHHH. oh okay. i turned it my test and prayed. and it was a 70? which is either really great or literally doesn’t make any sense because why am i so far off from everyone? 

professor said he had to add curve and go back in to change scores later so we shouldn’t stress. which means it was time to stress. 

but i didn’t even have time to stress because guess what? exam 2 was in 3 minutes. yes! that’s right, two back to back exams today. i sat in class and waited for hmm a good 30 minutes before someone said they saw our professor buying snacks and exiting the building… i still haven’t processed this so like no comment. 

i headed to lift and we finally got protein shakes back! bless up because now i can start drinking them to help gain weight. i lifted but my knee was screaming at me to stop so i did light weight on my reps, skipped hex bar deadlifts, and iced afterwards.

i went home and ate some leftovers, showered, and got ready for therapy! all of that went well but i was starting to get sleepy so i took a short baby 2 hour nap (sorry). 

when i woke up i joined my suitemate to get ice cream and then completed my psychology homework on her floor. 

THEN GRADES CAME OUT! DRUM ROLL PLS!!! i got a 91! NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER GIVE UP. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO. 

i need to thank the academy (my suite) for suggesting that i just pull the all nighter and get it all done in one sitting. 

i know this day is very long, bare with me bc i have more good news. my mama won circle of excellence (she’s really good at her job so they pay for her to go on vacation and get celebrated) in tulum this summer! she technically can’t take me but she might book. me a room down the road at the hilton all inclusive with a friend or family member… prepare to be sick of me. 

Wednesday: my little pony – the power of friendship

good morning to everyone except 6 am practice. unfortunately it has just gotten colder and colder. so we’re regressing into glove season… which is depressing. there were about 4.5 defenders at practice which is better than normal believe it or not. we ran a couple full sets and i had a pretty good practice! 

my suitemate and i got breakfast together at unido and i’ve been WAITING to finally try their breakfast sandwich. i devoured the entire thing. because my appetite is returning! i also got a chai latte to balance out the matcha i got last week. i am deeply committed to an intimate relationship with both beverages and i can never pick between them. we chatted about going to tulum together and i am like 80% sure it will happen. 

when we got back to our dorm i showered and joined my classical mythology class from home and then decided i was going to be too late to history to go. we’re learning about the civil rights movement? and idk i know a decent amount… soer i could catch up on that if i needed to. 

i headed to the athletic support building instead and then met up with one of the freshies who lost her keys on the yard? or in class? i couldn’t really tell you but i agreed to help her find them. we traveled all over the yard before realizing her professor just took them to her office and obtaining the prized possession there. we walked back to study hall where i took a million pics because the lighting was so perfect. 

shortly after i started getting back to grind time my friend came in to pester me : ) she wanted professional development help which i had no qualms on providing but then she said she had never held a job position before… like ever… which definitely made my job a lot harder. for obvious reasons. we parted ways but agreed to see each other later to talk about her resume. 

i was STARVING at this point so i decided to just blow my entire bank account at chipotle ? idk why i started eating out today? i just wasted an absurd amount of money. i went with one of freshies and we ate in my room while gossiping, as girls do. we also called one of the freshies who is at home with an injury. i literally was talking about missing her voice on the field the other day so it’s good to see her healing well at homesies. 

then i was alone in my suite with a full tummy so i decided to take more pictures before going to the library with my friend to work on her resume. it was superrr windy and i nearly got airlifted up the hill by mother nature so that was really fun! i decided i was starving so i took a pitstop at blackburn to eat a sandwich… rate 4/10. but then we made it to the library. we spent a lot of our time yapping and then one of the freshies came to help us yap some more. we finally left around 9:45 to back home! the walk back was almost as miserable as the walk up. 

while i was entering my building one of my teammates pulled up on me??? like literally scared the living daylights out of me with her scooter. preciate it, girl! 

i went to bed after showering, doing my skincare routine, and chatting with my mommy. 

Thursday: to be loved is to be known 

i feel like i never talk about going to the trainer before practice but essentially i have had a blister for… 2 months. and every time i equip my turfs it rubs the skin raw again. so i have to wait for the training room to open… for a tiny little blister pad. it’s really stupid honestly but i cannot wear my turfs without it. after practice i realized that i haven’t been this sore in a long time so i did treatment instead of lift so that i prioritize recovery.

at breakfast a teammate of mine made a joke about me and my roommate because our breakfast routine has been perfected and now i want to address it. MY ROOMMATE AND I ARE MARRIED. LOCKED IN FOR LIFE. and this is our breakfast routine. we both step up to the omelette station and order our omelettes. then she leaves to check if the buffet line has biscuits because if they do, she won’t get toast. if they don’t have biscuits she makes us toast, while i ensure they don’t put cheese on her omelette. after. i grab our omelettes she has already obtained silverware and our respective juices (me: cranberry juice with a splash of apple juice. her: apple juice). we switch jobs pretty often but it’s literally so seamless every time. and that’s what a happy marriage looks like thank you. 

i got carried away chatting at breakfast and completely forgot i had to stop at home before accounting. on my walk home i got a text saying that i didn’t even need to go because it was for people to try and get some points back. i laid on the floor of my suite until it was time to actually take my business problem solving mid term. which was interesting to say the least? everything was fine until the very last question… i determined it was irresolvable when the question introduced a very important variable one time (by acknowledging it existed) and then just neglected to address it ever again. what the hell am i supposed to do with that. fr.

once i got home i showered and was about to work on more internship applications when i received some really interesting news! howard university women’s lacrosse team was randomly selected for drug testing by the one and only ncaa. woohoo! how invigorating? but also truly wild because our team has not been selected in like the last millennia. obviously, this random selection was like kinda scandalous? idk? people from other teams were reaching out and then we found out that other teams were also selected from our school? idk something must’ve been in the water because i swear this barely happens to like multiple teams within the same season? but also i don’t know too much. 

our room became the host site for anxiety riddled teammates which… honestly? i feel like we’re trauma bonded now, i don’t regret opening up our doors. we didn’t figure out who was selected until 6:30 pm. by then i received some slaytastic news… my mid term came back as a 95% so hey maybe you don’t need to actually solve everything in front of you! 

the drug test gate scandal controversy palooza nerve fest happening in our suite died eventually but then came back to life around midnight when our teammates came back in to joke about the entire situation. we laughed and giggled about one of our friends peeing while on her period and what it would be like when the football team got tested. my suitemate woke up to come lay at the foot of my bed for the convos too. sigh. good times, funny laughs. but i was so so so tired and fell asleep shortly after they left. 

Friday: someone definitely stepped on a crack

good morning america! today is a bad day to be an addict at howard university because it was drug testing day. luckily i was not selected so i did not have to wake up at the crack of dawn to pee in a cup. but several of my teammates fell victim to the ncaa urine session. semi-fortunately most of the people selected were defenders, and our defense coach was busy touring university of michigan’s campus… so there was a whopping 2 defenders at practice… including myself… and both of us were in pain. i mean all this to say our head coach let us go in early to bike, stretch and roll out. we spent our bike session chatting and found out our football team has a sauna?? hello? all we have is a pet mouse who eats our snacks… which is kinda like way worse? while rolling out and stretching i asked my suitemate to step on my back and it sounded like someone stepped on bubble wrap. how fun is that! 

i made my way to breakfast early and ordered my omelette… by the time it was done and i returned to my table i realized that for some reason… everyone decided to come to breakfast? we didn’t even fit comfortably at one of the long tables so we all had to sit real close to one another. but the energy of a well populated breakfast table is unmatched and i love when we can all talk and joke about lacrosse over food. 

i went home after practice to shower and get ready for the day. as per usual, i did my makeup during classical mythology and actually made it out the door semi on time for history. YAY EVERYONE CHEER AND CLAP RN. AND TEXT ME A FUN FACT ABT URSELF IF YOU ACTUALLY CARE THAT I WENT TO CLASS CAUSE I NEED ENCOURAGEMENT FR. just for that one? idk why the workload is getting really intense and class feels overwhelming. 

after history i walked to the athletic support building where i attempted to grind through all of my assignments but i got a little distracted initially with one of my teammates. she was doing the nyt games and who am i to turn down connections?? so yes i did connections, wordle, and the new beta game before grinding on research paper. i joined my psychology class at 2:17 (oops) and he was teaching a lesson about obedience and conformity. for the lesson he gave an unrealistic assignment and asked us to finish it for a grade… which i did. in time. i don’t play bout that at all. put that on everything. essentially the assignment was to draw an egg and take it on an adventure, to take pictures of ur adventurous egg, and complete a series of questions with ridiculously small word counts. in the end my professor was like “haha this is just for the lesson everyone gets extra credit.” yeah yeah wtv preciate you my guy.

i made it home and cleaned my room before finishing blog work and making more progress on my research paper. when i started my day i wanted to finish everything quickly so that i could make it to the swim kickback… however as time passed i realized that i definitely was not going to have enough time to finish this paper with my parents coming in town this weekend… so i got ready for bed, showered, and broke the sad news to my friends. KENNY IS NOT GOING TO SWIM KICKBACK!

fast forward 2 hours and i arrived at the swim kickback. yeah yeah i know what i said but hey. truly you only live once. this kickback was supposed to be a stoplight theme… (wear green = single, yellow = it’s complicated, and red = taken) however, i know no one there really cared about the stoplight part so i wore my yellow shirt but it was adorned with black pajama shorts and some ugg boots. because best believe i will be comfortable at the end of the day. i had a good time but this party was way more packed compared to their previous kickbacks and people were making up rumors about the police so i headed home around midnight. i facetimed my reason for wearing yellow on my walk home and realized my roommate was still up chatting. i got ready for bed and passed out a happy girl. 

Saturday: this essay won’t write itself

happy game day everyone! i woke up and got ready pretty slowly, but it ended up being okay because team breakfast got delayed until 9:45. i always check the weather first thing in the morning and the first thing i saw was rain. lots and lots of rain. POURING RAIN. how lovely. i love lacrosse and i love d.c. even more. 

the walk to the athletic facility had me questioning if this was really worth it an average of 7 times per rain drop. and when we finally arrived my gray sweats had customized themselves to a nice two tone gray and dark gray ombre due to the rain. perfect! our food still wasn’t there when we got there so we ate late? and honestly i’m realizing that late breakfast is more detrimental than i originally thought. before i was worried about being hungry but it was 10x worse to feel my entire tropical smoothie sitting in my stomach during warmups. 

okay game analysis: typically defense really holds it down… we rarely have bad sets let alone bad quarters… but there is a first time for everything. this game required a lot of adjustment and we weren’t quite executing our clear game as we practiced which made us susceptible to a ridiculous amount of turnovers in the middle of the field… eventually we got it together but we played a lot of lacrosse this game (we being defense if that’s not clear). there were just more turnovers from our team than their normally is? idk but wow was i tired and sore afterwards. 

my suitemate’s dad finally met my dad which was such a full circle moment because we both talk about how similar they are. once i headed inside i went to ice my knee and when i came outside there was the CUTEST DOG. my parents were talking to the other team’s parents (this is where i get my yapping from) and they had the most precious labradoodle. i wanted to take him home. 

my parents gave me and three other teammates of mine a ride home to towers and then left to go to the hotel and pick up dinner. while they were out i showered, packed my bags, and took a power nap. then they picked me up and we headed back to the hotel where i chowed down on some tacos before setting sail on the longest writing voyage i think i’ve ever been on. 7 pm GRIND TIME. no breaks (several breaks). no food (i consumed many snacks). no contact (we broke that a long time ago). no sleep (this part is true). i finally headed to bed around 2:30 am and while i didn’t complete it, i slept easy knowing sunday’s workload was manageable. 

BANGERS OF THE WEEK:

TOO SWEET BY HOZIER

BE CAREFUL BY CARDI B

LIKE THAT BY FUTURE AND METRO BOOMIN

STITCHES BY SHAWN MENDES

JUST CANT GET ENOUGH BY BLACK EYED PEAS

DEJU VU BY OLIVIA RODRIGO

FEEL NO WAYS BY DRAKE

CINDERELLA BY REMI WOLF

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER BY SHAWN MENDES

JUNGLE BY A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE