Lovely People I have a new facebook friend named Ryan Leng. At first, I thought some mischievous youths were playing a trick on me. But he's a real dude. He's almost nineteen years old, in attendance at Arizona State University, and is from somewhere in Illinois. Who'd a-thought? He is (was) a hockey player too...I think.

So then I started investigating (via the Google search) all these people who are related to me. Some interesting findings ensued.

1. Jennifer Leng from Manchester, England (native to Lancashire). Age 21. Dancer, actress, producer. She likes Hockey.

2. Ron Leng is a retired professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of New England. He was born in England. As near as I can tell, he's involved with the UN and such, developing research in the nutritional biochemistry of ruminants (whatever that is). He seems to share the same interests (Chemistry, Agriculture) as my own father, who also possesses the name, Ron Leng, who is caught up at Dow making herbicides and pesticides for a living.

3. Kathryn Leng is a smashing cricket player in England. I think it's all she does for a living! She's like, a fricking pro! Shares a name with my sister.

4. Kristina Leng plays hockey at Wayne State. I think she might be the sister of this other Ryan Leng out there. Note well: This is the third hockey interest. I don't even know these people. They don't know me. But they like hockey. Even one from England! They don't have hockey there!

5. Joanna Leng is involved in research and software development of visualization for UK academics. Not sure what that is. Also resides in Manchester.

6. Mary Leng is a research fellow in philosophy at Cambridge.

Well...those are the interesting ones. There are a lot of Sik Fu Lengs and Chen Wei Lengs. But sweet props for the Manchester folk, man! Joy Division/New Order, The Happy Mondays, Oasis, Badly Drawn Boy...represent! Anyway, I thought there were some interesting people I should mention. The only question remains is how closely related are they to me. I guess the Lengs all pretty much go back to Yorkshire and Durham ancestry. I do remember meeting some of my dad's cousins from England. That was fun. They were great people, not like those churlish sobs from Guy Ritchie's films. Also, Leng is derived from Lange, which in OE and ME means "long." I should know. I'm taking that class and just got out of it a little over an hour ago.

This would be a good place to insert the Leng Crest. But alas! I can't find one.

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  ¶ 8:08 PM