First Steps

Every previous attempt I have ever made at blogging or journaling has been an utter failure. Even the Tumblr I started for my study abroad adventures, when I spent a month in France and 5 months in Morocco, was a pretty dismal affair (in my defense, I lacked a fully functioning computer and internet for the majority of that experiment). But here I start again! My goal is to document my adventures of last year of carefree living in the nation's capitol. Hopefully there will be lessons learnt, knees skinned and cupcakes frosted.

I've found (from three years studying international development at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service) that you can't succeed at anything without measuring it, so I will try to stick to a set of "quantifiable benchmarks":

• Post at least three times a week
• increase readership
• Post with pictures! (This will be challenging, given my attempt to live without a functioning computer)

Have any more benchmark ideas?