{"id":3584,"date":"2026-09-08T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:52:33","slug":"things-to-do-during-the-week-after-the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/09\/08\/things-to-do-during-the-week-after-the-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Do During The Week After The Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Welcome back to samsplaining and welcome to week three, Cavs. We\u2019ve got a short week this week, woohoo! To be honest, I was all thrown off this morning when I woke up. I was awake until \u00a03 a.m.<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">(c<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">urse of the long weekend) and I woke up thinking it was Monday. Thankfully (as horrible as that sounds), we\u2019ve reached the point of the semester where people have dropped classes or just stopped showing up, so parking is slowly getting easier to find. I know, that\u2019s terrible to say, <span>but these<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">small wins have to be celebrated when they appear. Speaking of small wins, the hot bar in the food court absolutely slapped on Friday, and I\u2019m hoping this week will live up to it. If you ate at the hot bar on Friday, I know you know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0<\/span>Something that\u2019s guaranteed to slap<span style=\"color: #000000\"> this week is Cav Kickoff, which I\u2019m very hyped about. Last year, I almost got recruited for the National Guard<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> because they had a puppy at their booth, so I\u2019m going to try to avoid that this year. The Messenger will also have a table at Cav Kickoff, so make sure to stop by and say hi. While enjoying Cav Kickoff (and avoiding the National Guard), I will be on a mission. What is the mission,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> you ask? The mission is to find Jean Claude. I am Jean Claude&#8217;s biggest fan, so if you hear a shriek or see someone running to Jean Claude, just know it\u2019s probably me. I\u2019ll be filming a special edition of Samsplaining from Cav Kickoff, so make sure to tune in next week to see the Samsplained version of Cav Kickoff.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Have a great, short week, Cavs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sincerely, Sammie<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cav Kickoff, Heatwave, Jean Claude and more! #cavs #college #jccc\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4e3UhjWvf2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that\u2019s guaranteed to slap this week is Cav Kickoff, which I\u2019m very hyped about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,356],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[321],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-samsplaining"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Saul Epstein","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/09\/You-Got-This-2-300x200.png","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sammie-magee\/","display_name":"Sammie Magee"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/category\/life\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Life<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/category\/life\/samsplaining\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Samsplaining<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Life<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Samsplaining<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 days ago","modified":"Updated 2 days ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 8, 2026","modified":"Updated on September 8, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 8, 2026 3:52 pm","modified":"Updated on September 8, 2026 3:52 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":321,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"sammie-magee","display_name":"Sammie Magee","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/09\/You-Got-This-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}