My name is Andrea. I am a graduate music student. On May 29th, 2010, I was planning on running my first marathon. This blog was to be a documentation of my training and anything else I find tumblrable. However, in about week 11 of training, when my long runs were up to 14 miles, I developed terrible shin splints in my left leg. Like, hurts to walk shin splints. Anyway, long story short, I ran the thing. I didn't finish, but I did make it to mile 16, and plan to run a full 26.2 someday soon. This blog is sometimes about running, more about cycling, but mainly about me...the things I like, obligatory funny shit, day to day life, my attempts at writing creatively, and...who the Hell knows. This is me. I make no apologies.
"I never did get along with everybody else
I've been trying hard to do what's right
But you know I could stay here all night
And watch the clouds fall from the sky
This river is wild."
-The Killers
”We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most are of working class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: They studied, got into college and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated - faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats. Is it really surprising that they would like to have a word with the financial magnates that stole their future?” Anthropologist David Graeber on the Occupy Movement
