Welcome! I’m Katie.

I’ve got a tendency toward daydreaming and love the challenge of trying to keep my feet on the ground and my head in the clouds. I’m a little over-enthusiastic about most everything, and thusly require inordinate amounts of sleep to merely keep up with myself. I’m a bit of a klutz and frequently find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time, but my take on it all is that it keeps me humble, which I hope it always does. If at all possible, I avoid wearing shoes. I drink coffee every morning.  I like musical theatre. I’m scared of bees.

As far as favorite activities, my current focus is on both climbing and skydiving. Luckily I live in a climate in which I can do both pretty much year-round. I do spend time in my local climbing gym pretty regularly to keep up with friends and stay strong. I’m often up for any sort of adventure or challenge, be it a midnight hike up Half Dome or a spur-of-the-moment game of hide and seek in my friendly neighborhood retail corporation.

Right now I’m working on my Master’s degree, which I hope to complete in the next year or so. My philosophy is that if I continue to go to school indefinitely, I can justify my preference for minimum-wage jobs that allow for me to climb and jump on the weekends, plus I get summers off.

I love new places and new people and have a knack for making friends most everywhere I go (though I can’t remember names to save my life). I love airports and train stations and parks, and I loathe the mall. The feeling I have when my car is packed up for a camping trip–the feeling of being able to go anywhere and do anything–makes me immensely happy.