Killjoys Style

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