Ten unique things about Christopher Dennis Lien
1. I live in the city I grew up in and have never moved away. I teach in the high school I graduated from and will probably teach at the local private liberal arts college I attended. Unique is a synonym for depressing, right?
2. I have run a half-marathon despite the fact I participated in no competitive or non-competitive athletic activities at the high school or collegiate level.
3. I can sing, play guitar, banjo (sort of), piano (somewhat) and trumpet (not really).
4. Even though I grew up in Minnesota, I have little to no waterskiing skills. In fact, the one time I went waterskiing I was surprisingly adept, but I retired from the sport shortly thereafter. I have officially gotten up on skis once and have never tried again.
5. One day, when I am done having children and all that, I will travel the countryside with my culinary wife and we will blog after each restaurant visit. She will be the food expert and I will be the goofy sidekick. After much hoopla, we will publish a book called "The Traveling Gourmet and her Husband". She will provide food information, and I will provide comic relief and "insight" to the culture and customs of the local scene. We will at least make $37 dollars from this venture.
6. I was a father, married, and divorced all by 21!
7. I pride myself on knowing quite a bit about baseball (thanks Gramps!) and football despite being generally terrible at both sports.
8. I could eat Rice Krispies three meals a day for the rest of my life. I probably will. That will be chapter three of the aforementioned travel/food book.
9. I do not text message. I refuse to on the basis that it feeds into a society of machine like automatons. Plus, I don't know how.
10. Last but not least, I will always want to grow the thickest man beard. Alas, my rotten genes prevent this from happening. I guess I'll have to make do with my baby smooth skin. Oh, well. --C.L.
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3 comments:
Can I pre-order that book? And are you traveling and writing before or after your in-house chef opens the restaurant? I already commented on Rikki's ten things...I wish we lived closer. Thanks for sharing!
OhMiGosh! You two are hilarious!
I am SO with you on the text message thing.
If you guys write that book, I believe you'll make AT LEAST $42. Serious.
So, that was fun!
Oh, Chris! I am so glad that you filled in all of this stuff about you. Hilarious.
I can't wait to read the book. Can I come along on the trip. I have had this desire to drive through rural back roads just because we can. (Maybe it was the long long trips to Reeder that incited this desire?) A book seems like a pretty good excuse.
I think that I remember the water skiing event. I didn't realize that it was the one and only. good grief.
Non-competitive Rice Krispy eatin' baby faced man. Yep,that about sums it up.
BTW - I'm glad that you're writing again. I thought that maybe I'd made you too mad to write again. I missed you. :-)
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