Jetlag Journal: DC Day 4
I think yesterday I finally realized what was going on with me emotionally. It used to be that I would get cranky and pissy around midnight and that would be my body's way of saying, "hey, you've had enough now, and you should go to bed." However, my midnight was striking at four o'clock in the afternoon. Yesterday it was around 7:00. Perhaps today it'll be around 9:00 or 10:00. Hopefully later. I am resettling, but it's a slow conversion process. I wonder if people got boatlag when they used to take those transatlantic passenger ships that took a month, or if that was a slow enough amount of time to adjust to the variation in time. I could only imagine the hell that interstellar travel might wreak on the body. But perhaps there is a threshold by which that no longer becomes an issue and you can simply just walk right back into your life.
I'm still waking up at far too early of an hour to realistically maintain, but at least I went to sleep around 1:00 a.m. and woke up around 6:30. That's going to be awesome when I return to work next week, provided that I actually maintain this sleep schedule.
Yesteray I didn't go to the zoo. I didn't do anything but sit in front of the television and veg out and chat with folks over the internet. Seriously, my day was boring. But perhaps it was foolish of me to try and press myself out to do too many things. I need to have some boring days to make up for it.
Today is my birthday. I'm going to go to bear happy hour and just have some fun for a while. There will be cake and probably something totally heinous to eat as well like Five Guys or IHOP or BOTH! We'll see how the day progresses.
I'm still waking up at far too early of an hour to realistically maintain, but at least I went to sleep around 1:00 a.m. and woke up around 6:30. That's going to be awesome when I return to work next week, provided that I actually maintain this sleep schedule.
Yesteray I didn't go to the zoo. I didn't do anything but sit in front of the television and veg out and chat with folks over the internet. Seriously, my day was boring. But perhaps it was foolish of me to try and press myself out to do too many things. I need to have some boring days to make up for it.
Today is my birthday. I'm going to go to bear happy hour and just have some fun for a while. There will be cake and probably something totally heinous to eat as well like Five Guys or IHOP or BOTH! We'll see how the day progresses.