I'd better document now, before the chaos of the beginning of school, how very happy I am. RA training will be officially over Monday night (realistically, there's only 2 more days) and I have met so many wonderful and fascinating people. It's so awesome how people of all different kinds of social groups, ethnicities, religions, backgrounds--you name it!--can come together and just enjoy each other for who they are. Although I'm thrilled the boring training stuff is drawing to an end, I am a little worried that the people I've met will drift away. I hope that doesn't happen. We'll come together for meetings and such, but I hope I'll be seeing a lot more of these people throughout the year and not just at meetings. Mom called, "Do you have a moment?" Uh-oh. "Yes..." She reads me a letter from ASU, congratulating me on my outstanding grades last year and also extending an invitation into the National Honors Society--attached to are greek letters, but I can't remember. Anyway, it's a pretty big deal and will hopefully help me out get some scholarship money. But even besides that, it's really nice to feel that kind of honor and recognition. I was never able to get good enough grades for honors until college. Weird, eh? I'm going to try so hard to keep it going. Oh my goodness...My roommate talks incessently!!! Thank goodness this is our last night together! Anyway, I think this is pretty much the last weekend I'll be able to breathe until the end of the semester. I'm going home again this weekend to grab a bunch of stuff and spend some time with my family and Kris before the big rush happens. Residents move-in on Tuesday! One more week, and then, class. Not much else to say except that I'm at a good place right now; content all around. That huge decision I was battling with towards the end of last semester of applying or not applying to be an RA has, thus far, proven to be the best thing I could have done. Just when I think I know myself, I go and discover something new about me. Carrie