Words on a Stick in the Fig Tree (Part 3) – Mad Chaos: April 15, 1999
Having walked out on the job, the diarist quits by phone, hunts for a pen, leaves a message on a stick in the old fig tree and rides home with Lyssa.
Windows 3.1 and a Brain-Draining Day (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: April 15, 1999
With bus money raided from his dad’s car, the diarist finally starts his first job in years, struggles with old software and walks back across the bridge at lunch.
Staring Women and a Broken Chain (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: April 15, 1999
Out of work again, the diarist builds theories about jobs that feel like hobbies, why women stare, a broken chain as fate, and the laptop he wants to buy.