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Labels: Happy New Year
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:00 AM
18 comments
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
18 Comments:
Uh, did I oversleep?
JK
Maybe. Check your clock, JK.
Jeffery Hodges
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I cant found ti. Whin I reulized I sleept tooo long I diceded to salubrate udderways.
KJ
Forsooth, King James, thou speakest mine speech.
Jeffery Hodges
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Have a lovely new year!
Happy New Year!
Here's hoping your healthier than I am right now.
WW, thanks.
Jeffery Hodges
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Charles, sorry to hear that you're not well. Nothing serious, I hope.
Jeffery Hodges
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My wife brought home a beautifully wrapped bottle of vintage bubbly fruit of the red grape, which we shared in our stemmed goblet.
Then we wished one another a Happy New Year.
We also would like you and yours a Happy New Year, and extend this to all the blog friends.
Of course, our vintage was only carbonated, not alcoholic. But still pretty good.
Cran
It's a little confusing. You see the new year 13? hours before me. It seems moving the clock back traveling west couldn't get you to the next day:)
Happy New Year
Uncle Cran, sounds like you had a Nehi grape soda to celebrate with.
My only celebratory drink this year was the electronic one depicted in this blog entry.
Jeffery Hodges
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That's right, Hathor -- crossing the International Date Line could enable one to miss New Year's Day altogether!
Jeffery Hodges
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That beautifully wrapped bottle of vintage 'oinos', was produced by Welch Grape Company.
It is put out every Christmas and New Year for teetotelers like us.
It looks like the other wine bottles, but is non-alcoholic, and is labeled as grape juice coctail.
We get our holiday spirit by other means.
Cran
p.s.
did I ever confess my last taste of booze.....that I partook of at James' Lieutenant Colonel pin on ceremony?
Uncle Cran, you have not confessed your latest transgression, but all of us are all ears.
Jeffery Hodges
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Methinks I should wait until nephew Bill finishes his interesting and educational family remembrances, plus more enlightening, though sometimes slightly above the heads and minds of your less savant relatives, blogs by our esteemed professor.
We need to give your other bloggers a rest.
Cran
Uncle Cran, judging from the quality of writing that my various relatives have sent to me via email, I think that my kinfolk must encounter very few difficulties reading this blog.
Jeffery Hodges
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Referring to myself, of course.
My relatives have very high mental faculties.
They also know how to spell 'boughten,' which I seeming am incapable of doing.
Cran
Well, Uncle Cran, there's some legitimate dispute over the correct spelling for the incorrect past participle of "buy."
Jeffery Hodges
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