Paranoia?

I just grabbed my cell phone to turn off the ringer in preparation for the school day tomorrow, and I discovered that someone had left a message in my voice mail yesterday afternoon. It was just a very brief message, "please give me a call", but now I'm sitting here thinking about it.

Of course, at 10:45 PM, one doesn't just call someone back, especially if that someone is an early riser and not a family member.

Thought #1: This person usually leaves detailed messages, so the brevity of the message is likely significant, and likely means it's either a) too complicated to get into in a phone message, b) not the kind of thing you want to tell someone via voicemail, or c) something that can wait but he was just wondering.

Thought #2: If the purpose of the call was something you don't want to leave via voicemail, then it's probably not good. My gut says that someone has died, or I'm in trouble somehow.

Thought #3: If it were all that urgent, he would have called me back today, and/or called me on my home line.

Thought #4: Oh, please, don't let someone have died.

Thought #5: I really shouldn't have been venting the other day. I felt awful while I was doing it, and awful afterwards, and it just wasn't nice. Maybe someone got wind of it.

Thought #6: Why is my gut so certain someone has died?

Thought #7: Am I going to be awake all night thinking about this?

Thought #8: No wonder I have headaches all the time.