2000 September 1 Friday

A crisis is only a phone call away.

Our broadcast producer Mootsy Elliott calls for the Ericsson phone screen in Portuguese. Crisis!

On a day when the agency closes at 1, I stay until 4. Overtime hours?

I treat myself to McDonald's for the first time in a month. It does me good.

I purchase Tori Amos's Concertina CD single for only $2.99.

I don't want to return to the apartment because I think my new roommate will be around.

Alas it's my last evening alone, and I'm enjoying it. I talk to Heavenly Father. I do my typical exercise-and-swim routine. Then I lie in the sauna. I feel much more alive afterward.

I still look back with wonder. I watch the final minutes of The Wonder Year finale. I also watch a tribute to the music of 1984.

Je regard Les 400 Coups. Je m'appelle Antoine Doinel. Mes vêtements sont trop grands. Antione, il court. Moi, je cours.