Wednesday June 27, 2001
I forgot to say that, last week, i gave up all my birds. Hanmee got frustrated in all the financial mire we’re in from lack of income, so i broke the stagnant mood and ran out the door with the birds. I went to Dongdaemoon market and sold all nine birds (including the old one with the bum feet) and the cage for 10,000 won. So now we have no twit-twit on the balcony anymore.
I called my dad the last night. I can’t help thinking that the distance is great – too great to bridge. Not necessarily (or at any rate, not only) from the physical divide between us, but just a separation i can’t easily explain. He’s done it. He can’t find the words to communicate with me anymore. Just doesn’t want to. Maybe i’m boring, maybe he thinks i’ve turned too white-collar for him. Maybe he just don’t like me no more. Who knows – who cares.
The cicadas have started buzzing now, bringing in the summer. Kind of noisy, if you ask me! Ha ha!