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Hello again, sports fans!

Sorry that it's taken me so long to do an update.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, whichever way you want to look at it) my classes are much more intensive this semester, so that means more readings, more assignments, etc.  Luckily, work hasn't been the major time killer, so that's good.

After nearly two months of nothing but snow, snow and MORE snow, it's finally starting to feel like spring.  I saw a real robin today! I'm just glad that having a shovel in the car won't be a necessity soon.  Of course, the change in temperature has my sinuses on the warpath, but I think its a fair trade for nice weather.  I forgot to add this to my blog last time, but this is what the worst of the snow was like.  That's my car, for reference. And that's five feet of snow behind my car that's 2 feet high, all of which I had to shovel.  Blurg.

The most exciting thing that's happened since the last time I wrote is that I dyed my hair again.  For those of you who know my past with this, I bleached my hair white two years ago.  That basically killed my hair (even though it looked AWESOME), so I decided to let it grow out naturally and just be what we in the hair dying world call 'virgin' hair.  Well, about a month ago, I got the itch again to overhaul the Katie look.  So, I dyed my hair red and I now look like my favorite Disney princess Ariel (minus the shell brassiere and the fins).  It's quite a chore to keep it bright but totally worth it.  I actually had a five year old come up to me at work and ask if I was Ariel.  I, of course, said yes. :D  Here's a peek at my look:

Another awesome thing that happened lately was I got the chance to interview the curator at the Mutter Museum (see my post about the museum for general info).  She was really nice and I tried not to geek out too much.  So far, that opportunity has been the highlight of my grad school experience.

Other than that, it's been work and school.  Thank goodness I don't have weekend classes this semester, so I've spent almost every weekend hanging out with my good friends Stephanie, Emily and Jesse.  It sounds like the four of us will also be going on the Museum Professions trip to Rome this May.  So that should be a lot of fun.

As for what's coming up in the near future, my younger brother John will be visiting me for his Spring Break.  We've got a lot of great stuff planned, so I will have to write about that!

Hope you all are well.  I promise to write again!

XOXO,
K

Last Season on "Katie's Blog" . . .

Hello once again! First, let me start off by apologizing for taking this long to post since I've been home.  As soon as I returned from my break, work got incredibly crazy since it was the beginning of the semester and there were several 10+ hour days.  Couple that with the start of classes and I had zero time to do anything when I got home but sleep.

Christmas break was absolute bliss, I must say.  I spent two and a half weeks relaxing at home with my wonderful family.  I got to see a bunch of people I haven't seen in months and hung out with my two favorite girls in the world, Caitlin and Aimee.  Needless to say it was really hard to leave, but it was great to have as much time as I did.

To update anyone who is wondering about my health since my last post, I'm am almost 100% recovered.  It took way too long for me to figure out what was wrong, but once I did, it was a REALLY easy fix. 

This semester is shaping up to be a good one.  I'm taking three classes again this semester: Registration II (which is a continuation of Registration I from last semester), The Discriminating Eye (which teaches us how to recognize different techniques and mediums in art), and Anatomy of a Museum (which is the last basic intro course I need to take).  They are all during the week this semester, so no weekend classes, which is fine by me.  More time to do homework, laundry and hang out with friends.

I'm going to try to keep things interesting this semester so it's not all boring and to give me something to write about on the good ol' blog.

Til next time!

K