Greetings from an old friend

I hope that is how you see Falling Bottoms, as an old friend who holds a special place in your heart. You feel warmth towards them. So much warmth and love that when they disappear for a few months with no note to explain their absence, no phone calls, no email or snail mail, or texts not even a damn telegraph you don't feel anger or disloyalty because you know they really do love you back and were probably super busy with some big life change or in the very least catching quite a few seriously fundamental to the story line reruns of Beverly Hills 90210 on SOAPnet.

While I have at times within the last few months been able to digest the the artful elegance of 90210 reruns (How many relationships can these people be in? How many times can Brandon propose to Kelly? How can David remain attractive even though he is an embarrassing rapper?), I have mostly been busy with  moving to Washington, D.C. to attend graduate school. I moved, I started school, I started a job, I bought a grocery stroller, I moved again and I walked to the monuments a lot. I've had a lot of things on my plate and Falling Bottoms fell by the wayside. Also, the thought of writing a blog as I was writing pages upon pages for school and my job left me with a slight aversion to writing as an extracurricular activity. Now that I had a semester to get settled, I've felt an itch to get back to blogging. My "new life" has given me so many experiences that I'd love to share. Most of them happy because D.C. is one of my favorite places ever.

Photo credit: Yours truly

 Although, I don't think it is realistic to commit to posting a few times a week I think I can manage a new blog post about every week. This semester is set to be just as busy as last with starting an internship at the British Embassy (more on that later!), keeping a part time job (get money, get paid), and going to class so I can fill my head with smarty nuggets of gold, but to me that just means lots and lots of material to share with you all.

I thought about changing the focus of the blog to I don't know what, which was not really a helpful brainstorming process. And so, I've decided to keep things pretty much the same around here with the understanding that my posts will probably revolve around the things going on in my life right now, these things will probably end up being very D.C. centric. Hopefully an exciting development for Falling Bottoms.

I would love if you trusted followers decide to stick with me because I think it will be a good time. I've watched a lot of good tv and eaten a lot of cupcakes since we've last met, which as we all know leads to quite impressive anecdotes about life, love and telling the future (my secret of being skilled in the field of Divination is finally out I guess).

*Also, I am working on a few kinks with the design of the site. I like the new layout, but want my original background and a less boring color scheme. Technology is being annoying in these matters, but I will keep trying.