Haircut day

Last week, temperatures dropped as low as 9 degrees in St.Louis. Today's high was in the 70s. After this miserably long winter, these warm breezes strike me as odd- I no longer trust the weather. It's sad that this spike of spring is tainted by my memory of an inch of solid ice covering every surface. But I'll get what I can take with this crappy climate. I wore a coat today by force of habit, although it was merely cool when I headed home from studio. The windows in our apartment are open tonight, to circulate the air. I hope the days of high gas bills are over.

Today, being Thursday, I have no classes, so it was a working day of trying to get stuff done. Not so much studio stuff got done, but I fared better on my personal list. My hair was getting a little long, and finding an hour can be such a challenge later in the semester, so I went out and got a haircut. A classmate had recommneded this place called Cutters&Co., so I decided to give it a shot. At fifteen bucks, its really not much more than a CostCutters or a SuperCuts haircut. I made an appointment an hour or so before I drove down. The shop is a bit hard to find- its in the basement of a very nice hotel- the Park Plaza hotel, a few miles east of school on the edge of the Central West End. They validate your parking, and for $15 (student rate) you get a coke or a beer, scalp massage, hot facial towel, shampoo and cut. A pretty sweet deal, even factoring in a tip. Apparently they get a lot of students from the universities as their clientelle is pretty much by word of mouth only.

Afterwards, I stopped by Straubs, a gourmet grocery store, and picked up some chocolate and a few boxes of tea before heading back to studio with the windows down.