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Labels: Birthdays, Sun-Ae Hwang
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 3:58 AM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
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About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
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."
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25 Comments:
Happy Birthday, Sun-Ae.
And many more.
Cran
Sun-Ae says, "Thank you!"
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy Birthday, Sun-Ae.
(Jeff, get up off your duff and bake her a real cake.)
Herschel D.
No wait, I'm pretty sure Mr. Holland failed in some ways.
Order out.
Herschel D.
oooooooooooh, I'm going to go all girly here and say that I am so glad that I decided to see if there was any punch behind each line,therefore,clicking and reading that eloquent story about how you met! I miss this more personal side of your blog. I appreciate and read each day your postings. It's just sometimes I am in over my head in your classes, and am not for sure how to craft an adequate comment on the topics.
Happy birthday, Sun-Ae.
Jeanie
Herschel, my problem is lack of time. I'm currently grading over one-hundred assignments, mostly essays.
But my cakes don't hold a candle to hers anyway.
Jeffery Hodges
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Jeanie, Sun-Ae appreciates that you went all girly for her.
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy Birthday to Sun-Ae! From Melissa and Hayden!
Thanks from Sun-Ae.
(And we know that we need to set up a get-together again soon).
Jeffery Hodges
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Well Jeff, understood. And understand.
I couldn't find where I'd filed it but someone sent me a picture of a wienie roast that I somehow pictured your "Birthday for the Wife" in.
The picture depicted a bunch of "people I sorta 'know' using the ice downed timber."
Recall the difference between a lawn/garden rake and a leaf rake?
One "very Boy Scout Dad" having had his troop set fire to the resulting brush-pile fire, skewered a bunch of All-American Hot Dogs onto the tines of the many tined leaf rake and subsequently uh... "provided supper." (You should be able to picture that.)
Apparently there was something about the roasting weinies and the paint that covered the tines thereof.
Anyway, all recoverd - but "Eagle-Improvisor" apparently had his Campfire Cooking For Large Groups badge questioned.
This is not to say, of course, that a standard hillbilly leaf rake has too many tines to skewer too many candles for Sun-Ae to appropriately have to blow out and make her wish.
That's the reason I thoght "maybe" take out.
Herschel D.
I must have missed that campground cookout, Herschel, but whoever did that trick with the rake needed a good hard kick in the rear to stimulate some thinking.
Jeffery Hodges
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So then:
Your "Cooking for Large Groups" badge is in no danger?
Herschel D.
(Do they even have leaf rakes in South Korea?)
The rakers seem to use something like a broom, I think.
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy birthday by proxy!
"Thanks, Charles" . . . from Sun-Ae's proxy.
Jeffery Hodges
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Joyeux Geburtstag!
"Vielen merci!" from a kamhamsanmercivoll Sun-Ae.
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy Birthday!
Here is a birthday cake for you:-)
J
Thanks, "J." I'm sure that Sun-Ae will have enjoyed this cake, too, as soon as she has seen it.
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy birthday Sun-Ae. You are a wonderful sister-in-law.
Tim
Sun-Ae will be happy to hear this, Tim. I'll pass it on.
Jeffery Hodges
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A belated happy birthday, Sun-Ae!
Sorry I didn't see this sooner, but October 8th is a special day for me too: it's also the birthday of my best friend, my lovely wife Nina.
An even more belated "Happy Birthday" to your lovely Nina -- from Sun-Ae and me.
Jeffery Hodges
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Happy Belated, Sun-Ae!
Thanks for that, Daddio. I'll alert the Lady.
Jeffery Hodges
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