Rachel Young

saturday, august 25, 2001

Can`t sleep (surprise, surprise). But wanna know why? Paranoia is definitely creeping in! My cell phone, which was sitting on my computer desk, was set on quiet (as it usually is 99% of the time) after I had left work. And hence I didn’t realize I had missed a call. I checked my phone at 2:30am and scanned the caller-ID to see who it was. From a quick glance at the area code, I immediately knew it was a local number. But when I saw the remaining seven digits, chills ran down my spine.

It was my apartment phone number. The apartment I’ve been sitting in all night long . . . alone. My roommate is gone for the weekend, and it’s not as though I’m anywhere near a phone in my bedroom. I know I didn’t accidentally dial up my own cell phone number by mistake. I checked the call log to see what time the call was made. 8:31pm. My roommate was long gone by then. She left at 4 in the afternoon. I tried to convince myself that perhaps the time stamp is incorrect and it’s just a minor technical glitch in AT&T’s system. So maybe she had actually tried to reach me earlier, but it only got through hours later. Yeah, that’s it. I’m sure of it.

But then I realized the girl doesn`t even have my cell phone number. Okay, so I`m really freaking out at this point.

Not having fully convinced myself of a logical explanation, I immediately ran a quick search throughout my apartment. But like the prideful and naive idiot that I am, I did so without backup (ie. baseball bat, mace, butterknife, nail file). I figure I`m just really being paranoid at this point, and such precautionary measures like having 911 punched into my phone and ready to go would be very silly of me. I`m a tough chick. I can handle this.

I checked my roommate’s bedroom, the bathroom, the living room, the closets, even underneath my bed. No strange mysterious creatures lurking around anywhere as far as I can tell. And yet I still feel a little unsettled. How could a call come from my apartment when I`ve been here the whole time? I just don’t get it. If anyone has any logical theories, please let me know.

Man, I definitely need to get more sleep. But if you should notice a lack of updates for an extended period of time without any explicit indication from me as to why . . .

Ok. I really should stop that.

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