일 || in which there is much confusion

[taegeuk]

( Hello, Mayfield. Today, if you’re lucky-or unlucky, depending upon your point of view-you may see this fellow on one or more occasions. Blissfully ignorant of the fact that he’s been droned for several months, he is in the stage of Mayfield awareness he will soon refer to as the “where the heck am I?” level.

A; When he first wakes up, Korea

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[lotuslife]

[Oh, it's not- no, wait, wait-]

...Em Korea-?!

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[taegeuk]

Look, it's pretty simple, right? Just pizza! With lots of cheese...

[taegeuk]

( wait a second... he's staring at the phone, now, and very much missing caller idea. and text messages. )

[taegeuk]

Noona! That's Noona, right? What are you doing in America?

( Never mind what he's doing here. )

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[lotuslife]

D-- Don't say that in a tone that sounds like you think I want to be here! [SCANDALIZED.]

[lotuslife]

[...but more importantly. how utterly strange... Thailand, Taiwan, and now Korea. it seems too strange to be coincidence that they'd all come back around now, but she'll think more on it later.]

Trời ơi... I suppose you just got here.

[taegeuk]

'Course you want to be here--we're on vacation, yeah?

It's a nice surprise, but my birthday was months ago!

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[lotuslife]

Of course I-- Ch..Chết! Chết! How disgusting! [VOLUNTARILY BEING IN AMERICA'S HOUSE ARE YOU INSANE... ahh... don't answer that...]

[lotuslife]

[okay, Nam, breathe. it's just Korea. he's always this infuriating.]

...Well, it is not a surprise. Nor is it a vacation.

[taegeuk]

But..but...

I don't want to be here for work! That's boring! Even if America's being a slacker!

[lotuslife]

It isn't work, either, unless you count fatherhood as work...

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[taegeuk]

Oh, good--no work is good! It would be better if there was pizza or something, but ...

[taegeuk]

Fatherhood? Who had a baby? Noona I don't know how to take care of babies! I dropped Hong when he was little, remember? Right on the head! What if it happens again? How do we--is it a-- ( brb flailing forever. )

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[lotuslife]

Aah, is that what happened? Sometimes I am wondering about him, thinking that he surely cannot have inherited such disgustingly frivolous spending habits from China...

[lotuslife]

[oh right, right. don't go enjoying this one too much, Viet-- oh, who is she kidding, she's going to enjoy this.]

Well, em, you had a baby! Isn't that nice? Two, I would think! Two babies. Ah, and you got married, too.

[taegeuk]

But-but-but-but...

I was saving myself for Sooyoung! And the rest of So Nyuh Shi Dae! How could I get married? I haven't had a romantic and intense meeting with the girl of my dreams yet! There was no meetings in the grocery store and then again at college! Her father didn't threaten me! I didn't lose her more than once! I haven't swam across the ocean to find her!

...h-how?