Korean name: ÀüÇüÁÖ
Birth: 4:40 am, June 19, 1977, Midway Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Death: inevitable
Signs: Gemini, snake, gang
Occupation: English Instructor, Department of Liberal Arts, Kangnam University, Yongin, South Korea
Languages
: mumbled English, some Korean, even less Japanese, and some menu items in Spanish
Political philosophy: the one that advocates "the full development of all the material, intellectual, and moral powers that are latent in each person"
Religion: the one that condemns homosexuality, sees women as inferior to men, commands me to convert or kill the people who are different from me, and wants my money.
Publication
: "Rethinking Helen Cavanagh's How Local is Local History?" Recounting the Past. Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 2001. Pp. 1-8.
Work in progress: How to Teach a Fucking Moron: Reflections of an Incompetent Teacher.
Pet peeves:

  • people who do not like me, yet keep me on their e-mail list to let me know how great their lives are going
  • people who end all their sentences with question marks?
  • people who endlessly obfuscate a point because they're so afraid of losing an argument
  • people who pretentiously use words like "obfuscate"

Favorite person: my wife, Solip Choi
Favorite actor: Gene Kelly
Favorite authors: Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens
Simpsons personality: As I kid, I was like Milhouse.  Now, I'm a cross between Sideshow Bob and Lionel Hutz.
Currently reading
: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quantum Mechanics for Dummies
Diet: tofu, instant noodles, coffee, and club soda


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