Yesterday's paranoid episode went something like this...
Without a DVD player, I've been reduced to watching episode after episode of Buffy on video. So I'm in my flat with the lights off and all the windows closed when I hear a noise outside. And yet again, I'm immediately up at my windows, scouring the darkness outside - expecting at any moment for a face to loom up in front of me, trying to get into my home. I wander around the flat checking all the windows and turning lights on so I can check the room, then turning them off so I can see outside more easily. It's about twenty minutes before I can sit down again...
