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Around ten o’clock I decide to check my e-mail.<br />

I have been avoiding it all day—just in case there’s another<br />

drama/crisis/problem waiting for me in my inbox. After deleting<br />

all the spam—you would think the gods could develop some sort of<br />

supernatural spam-blocker—I have three new messages. I decide to<br />

open in the order of most likely to make me feel better—or rather,<br />

least likely to make me feel like worse crap.<br />

The first is from Coach Jack at USC.<br />

To: lostphoebe@theacademy.gr<br />

From: coachjack@usc.edu<br />

Subject: Cross-Country Scholarships<br />

Miss Phoebe Castro,<br />

I am pleased to announce that you are being considered<br />

for the Helen Rawlins Memorial Scholarship. Pending your<br />

successful admission to the University of Southern California,<br />

you will compete with three other candidates for this<br />

prestigious scholarship that will cover your tuition, books,<br />

fees, room and board for up to four years of undergraduate<br />

education.<br />

Annual renewal of the scholarship is dependent upon<br />

maintaining an above-average academic record and participation<br />

in the USC cross-country team.<br />

Best of luck,<br />

Coach Jack Farley<br />

This isn’t anything I didn’t already know. Coach Jack told me at<br />

camp that I was up for the scholarship, even though the official<br />

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