"Dear Kambria, We are please to offer you...

ADMISSION to our graduate program for fall and certainly hope you will choose to attend...

Lots of Love,
The University of Texas-Dallas

I was pleasantly surprised when they sent this email last month since I didn't think I even finished the application to UT-D, but they offered me a scholarship too! Suddenly, Texas is a definite option for us in August. It seems like a pretty cool place to live. Of course, most of what I know about Texas I saw on TLC's t.v. show "Toddlers and Tiaras." I wonder if I could pull off the whole "pageant mom" thing? As to the actual school I would be attending, they have a good program (ranked number 12 in the nation) but I can't make any real decisions until I hear back from ASU and Hawaii... hopefully in just a few weeks. Cross your fingers for me!

3 a.m. and bawling

I'm conscientious. I also LOVE sleep,  which means there isn't much that can keep me up until 3 a.m. when school starts at 8 o'clock that morning (yuck! cold!!!) Nonetheless, Suzanne Collins has created a masterpiece that I could not get enough of. They are really easy reads but also very well written. There is action, humor, love, death, family, suspense, fantasy, reality, depression, audacity, self-discovery, sacrifice, and they are absolutely thought-provoking. I don't think I have cried, been moved, or related to a book like that since I was ten and finished my first real novel: Where the Red Fern Grows.

But that's just me. Maybe you will love them too. READ THEM!