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ENTRY #2
Friday, Aug. 17, 2012
Hello again!
If one thing is for certain, our team is full of weirdos. Throughout the months, we’ve had an ongoing debate about who is the weirdest on our team. Taylor Brooke’s name gets tossed in there every once in awhile due to her freakish ability to growl and crawl on all fours like a lion. Not to mention, it has been documented that Taylor went to bed unable to figure out a particular math equation for her homework. The next morning she woke up having dreamt the solution to the problem. That girl is genuinely weird.
Michelle Cruz is what I like to call a “closet weirdo”, as she could stay in bed all day watching twenty different TV shows. Micaela Capelle is a definite front-runner. Her twitter account is “micmicmeowmeow” which represents her extreme obsession for cats (whoever likes cats more than dogs needs to seriously reevaluate their life). Mic is constantly caught making high-pitched, cat-like noises. On top of that, Mic is a big self-motivator in everything she does. During sled pulls she motivates herself by screaming “ Come on Micaela, you are a warrior, you can do this!”
But, without a shadow of doubt, Erin Dees consistently make the top of the list. Erin Dees-aka Dees, Van Deesil, Deesus Christ, Deesaster Master, and much more-is a Grade A weirdo. Dees may come off as a quite innocent young woman, but anyone who thinks this is terribly mistaken. Every year, the incoming freshman come on an official visit and we always ask them if they have any special talents. Dees had hardly spoken a word, but my weirdo radar was blinking off the charts. I don’t know if it was her bright blond hair, her neon yellow sweatshirt, or the mere fact that she is a goalkeeper, but I just knew this girl had something brewing inside her. Sure enough, Dees came through and revealed her ability to bellow an “evil laugh”. The sound that came out of her mouth was pretty funny, yet it also made me feel slightly uncomfortable. From there on out, Dees bleeds and sweats weirdness. Let me run you through a typical day in the life of Erin Dees:
(In her spare time, Dees likes taping her face)
5:30 am - Wake up, check twitter
6:00 am - Walk around in dorm confused as to why no one else is awake
6:30 am - Check twitter, and tweet “I made the executive decision to change the way I write my 2’s”
7:00 am - Google images of Mark Harmon and fantasizes about being together one day
7:30 am - Gets dressed in Birkenstocks, socks, neon yellow crew-neck, and neon orange backpack, tweets, “ I’m rocking the neon sweatshirt, neon backpack combo today. Maybe a bit too much neon? #never”
7:45 am - Breakfast at the Commons with fellow goalkeeper and roommate Nichole Downing, talk about goalkeeper problems
8:15 am - Accounting class, check twitter, writes a draft tweet, but isn’t completely satisfied with its content, so saves for later
9:10 am - Ethics class, day dreams about making a miraculous save in our Friday night game at Merlo under the lights
10:20 am - Business class, check twitter, ponders the draft tweet, rejects it, and instead tweets “sitting in class and the only thing I can think about is the delicious sandwich that’s in my backpack #deesproblems”
12:00 pm - Lunch time, eat pickles with the delicious sandwich that was in her backpack
1:00 pm - Arrive in locker room and dances alone to the entire Macklemore album
2:00 pm - Practice, bruises the hips making saves, solidifies her goalkeeper tan/burn.
4:00 pm - Post-practice ice-bath, checks twitter, tweets “I haven’t had an overly emotional tweet in a while so here it is “:))” see how I doubled the emotion by adding another mouth? #twitterswag”
4:30 pm - Secretly escapes to park for a leisurely round of Frolfing (what she likes to call Frisbee golfing)
6:00 pm - Dinner at Commons with team, check her twitter to find out what she ate (@ErinDees)
7:00 pm - Homework, tweets “Sitting @ my desk writing a paper & all of a sudden I smell cotton candy. I now want cotton candy. But I have to write my paper. #deesproblems”
7:30 pm - Drives to Fred Myers to get cotton candy
8:30 pm - Watches an episode of NCIS, fantasizes about Mark Harmon
9:30 pm - Bedtime, but gets in one last tweet “I’m kind of getting used to these frogs, they r peaceful to fall asleep too, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t attack them all if I was given the chance.”
Our team embraces Dees’, and everyone else's weirdness, and it is part of what allows us to get along so well. Speaking of weirdness, it is crazy to think that our game is tonight! We are all so excited to get on the pitch and the game could not come sooner. Kickoff starts at 7pm! Can’t wait to see you all there. It’s gonna get real weird!
Life,
Kendall
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