A long-haired young man alone at a cluttered bedroom desk beside a glowing beige CRT monitor, holding a beige corded phone handset to his ear with a tense annoyed frown, a few folded dollar notes on the desk in 1990s Australia

Lyssa Wants Her Twenty Dollars Back

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This is an excerpt from a real diary entry from the Diary of a Mad Chaos, written on April 27, 1999. Learn more about the history of the diary

Colorful Call From Lyssa

Such a tranquil setting inside this dormant room. While the wind whistles and bends what holds rustling leaves, I sit here oblivious, with this computer screen to be my savior for these few minutes. Today as yet I haven’t stepped out of the house but that needs not say that I haven’t had an eventful afternoon. A little while ago I did receive a colorful phone-call from Lyssa who quite literally is repeatedly jumping up and down to grab the dollar notes from my outstretched hand.

Far from the clamorous conversation with Lyssa that did nothing but augment my unearthing of her spite, I will be heading out soon. That is, if I can keep these tired eyes from shutting (I am a fair bit away from that) and if I can keep this slight headache from becoming a problem, I’ll be heading out to Campbelltown.

Just a couple of minutes ago I decided to give Keith a call who was driving around in Parramatta finishing up some errands. Asking if he could come over later and keep me company he sounded inviting to my thought. Therefore, Keith should be heading over my house within half an hour and from there I will probably head to Campbelltown with him so I can pay some money into my Credit Card and pay off my phone bill. Most of all, I want to get some sun so that I can keep myself awake for the next couple of hours. Let me hope that tonight I will better my night’s sleeping habits.

Lyssa Turns Spiteful

Now, getting to some earlier chronology, I have had some thin-skinned conversation with Lyssa as of late. I believe Lyssa has been slowly growing in her spiteful animosity towards me and it began when Lyssa finally realized that there was no chance of reprisal. When Lyssa and I had our massive argument we didn’t talk to each other for almost a fortnight but because Lyssa still harbored a hint of emotion she called me and our talking restarted.

Lyssa’s emotions made her believe that we could still go back to our old ways where she would come over my house and inadvertently disappoint my sexual prowess. However, somewhere between the day she called me back and today she realized that there was no chance for the old ways and knowing that with my stubborn nature I wouldn’t allow the olden days, she became spiteful. This has shown in bigger increments within this era but today I did see the vindictive nature that I always knew was in Lyssa.

I feel that the turnaround in Lyssa’s regard towards me changed on the night she uttered “Well I guess you can call me when you want to speak to me and that’ll never happen because you only call me when you need something.” This I feel was the turning point and from that day, getting her money back wasn’t a waiting game but a demanding game.

Ever since Wednesday night when Lyssa squandered her money (and her father’s money) on a leather jacket worth $270 she has been on my back to retrieve $20. At one stage she didn’t even want the money back and although I was going to give it to her despite her generosity, she decided to turn into her old self, a ‘Money Hungry Bitch’.

Successively on each night since Wednesday Lyssa has been nagging me about the money that at one stage wasn’t important to her. From day one, Lyssa made it seem like she was demanding the money and she cushioned her desires well, but with each passing day, that envelope was disappearing. Today I saw the raw money-hungry Lyssa in action, demanding what was rightfully hers.

Money Games Continue

I’m sure that I’ve said this countless times before but Lyssa has to be one of the most spiteful people I have come across. Because I have decided to neglect her dramatically since our final argument, she has taken it to heart and the only way she can get back at me is to pick at me spitefully about obtaining her money. Last night I got myself to sleep around 6:00 p.m. and around that time I was called by Keith whom I had called during his football game.

Informing him that I didn’t want to head out I got myself back to sleep. However, at 8:00 p.m. I received a call by Lyssa who stepped up her bid to receive her deserving money. I don’t believe the conversation was very long, as I wanted to get back to sleep but Lyssa thought to tell me her plan to obtain her money. Right now I just think Lyssa is so lazy and selfish not to make some sort of effort in this predicament.

Yesterday she could have walked down to Leumeah Station but she chose not to because she didn’t think she had to walk. Now Lyssa wants me to meet her at Leumeah Station when she’s coming home from work. Once again, she doesn’t have to make any effort as she’ll be catching the train and then a bus home from work.

Early Rise and Another Call

Today I woke up at 2:00 a.m., which again is fairly early in the morning. For that couple of hours I didn’t really do much work because I had neck aches and a slight headache. Beginning some new work on my data compilation I found that trying to put tabs on every single word used in each entry and how much times it had been used was a daunting task.

For that reason I’m thinking of scrubbing that portion of review out of the equation unless I can find a program that will do it much easier. My day wasn’t filled with much anticipative action but I did have a relaxing shower with my body wash and then I done some pushups and sit-ups. Dragging time forward to 12:30 p.m. I received a call from Lyssa who was at work.

With this call she again asked if I could meet her at Leumeah Station so I could give her money and at this time I was supporting to that idea. Despite the fact that I told Lyssa I wouldn’t go out of my way if Lyssa couldn’t do it for me I stepped forward as I usually do with Lyssa when sticking my neck out. Conversation was brief as Lyssa told me she would call me on her lunch break so we could further talk.

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