Do you know these people?
Most people don’t know that:
A. I was attacked by a lion in Africa and came very close to being mauled 100 miles from the nearest hospital. It makes you appreciate life and realize your place in the food chain.
B. I have run three Boston Marathons.
C. I am a music lover, especially country music. I just ran my first half marathon at the Country Music Marathon in Nashville with my friends Bert Hughes and Shawn Von Tagle and got to hear some great country music.
D. I used to be a DJ in college. That’s why I had all those dance-pop CDs in my collection.
E. I read mostly hard science fiction. I like it because I like exploring ideas of how the near, and far, future will unfold.
F. I was a Chicago Cubs bat girl for one game when I was 9 years old. I was probably more excited about the free Polaroid camera I won, but I did take a picture of Jody Davis in the dugout with my new camera.
G. I have a shameless obsession for reality TV shows. I’m totally amused by the people and all their antics. I just find it hard to believe people will do such ridiculous things and allow it to be shown on television.
H. I traveled to see more than 60 Grateful Dead concerts from 1984 to 1995 and saw Jerry Garcia’s last performance at Soldier Field in Chicago.
I. I took a year off between high school and college and lived in a truck camper for seven months during a record-setting cold Colorado winter without electricity. I worked at a marble shop and beat unused cultured, hardened marble out of five-gallon buckets with a hammer so the buckets could be reused — all at minimum wage. This provided me the opportunity to earn and save money to go to college (using a friend’s address to establish residency and qualify for in-state tuition).
J. I suffer from coulrophobia (an extreme fear of clowns) and think that the jack-in-the-box toy is the most depraved thing ever invented.
K. My graduate school studies at Southern Illinois University were interrupted in 1965 when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. After training as an infantry and artillery officer, I served in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion 5th Marines. After the war, I continued a 30-year career in the Marine Corps Reserve and retired as a colonel in 1995.
L. I performed with my high school dance team at the Barcelona Olympic Village during the 1992 summer games.
M. I would rather read a technical manual than a novel and have always enjoyed mowing grass. I took my parents lawn mower apart as a kid and had two extra parts after reassembly, but it still ran.
N. I had my 21st birthday in Agra, India, at the Taj Mahal.
O. Throws a mean changeup that will have you swinging out of your cleats.
P. I ran the only mountain rodeo in the United States for three years in Colorado.
Q. My brother and I started our first company with 75 cents. Every other business has grown from reinvesting the money we made from that company, and it all traced back to that initial 75 cents in startup capital.
R. I have lived through my house being destroyed by a tornado when I was in middle school. The roof was literally ripped off my bedroom.
S. My wife and I started dating when she was a freshman in high school (I was a junior). We have been together ever since.
