I'm tired of telling you about jet lag

[pseydtonne]

This is my sixth day back but I'm still having severe problems pulling together a decent night's sleep. I didn't help myself by going to Brooklyn this weekend and winding up sleeping in the car early Sunday morning.

I went to bed at three this morning then woke up at six-thirty. I had breakfast but felt cranky. Then I puttered until I felt tired enough to sleep again, which was at ten o'clock. I slept fitfully for the next six and a half hours.

When I finally got out of bed again at four-thirty, I felt like life was flickering around me. I got some food into me and the flicker dropped -- my frame rate for reality was almost normal. Then I took a shower and got thoroughly abluted. I even shaved. Now it's quarter of six in the evening and I'm typing.

Tomorrow I have to drop off the car at the shop at eight. Said shop is way out in Bedford, thus I suspect I should get up around six. My body may be interested in that. In any case, I'm going to try going to bed early tonight. If I don't fix my sleep, how can I resolve the rest?

-eager to have smart things to say again, Ps/d

Comments

[mangosteen]

So, what was the most disorienting thing about the US, after you got back?

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Finding someone that spoke English at LAX. I ordered a big ice water with limes and got ice water with lemons because they have the same word (limon) in Spanish.

After that it was more jarring not to have an office job anymore. There is nothing forcing me to realign to life in Boston except the fear that I will be broke. There is something very comforting about a water cooler and the people around it. I'm not into telecommuting.

I should travel to a francophone nation for at least a week. I would like to be deeply exposed to French. Then again all the French kids I met wanted to practice their English, but they did travel to Australia with that purpose. I'll go to France and Belgium but avoid Paris -- just cities without the anglophone tourists.

Hmmm... I like that challenge: find places I want to go where I will have to speak French even if I'm in a hostel for the day recovering from jet lag. Any ideas? I'm sorting through this list already (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_France) and am assuming it only counts a city's population without the suburbs (Paris is too big to have only two and an eigth million people). Strasbourg sounds like fun but aren't they deutschephones? (Tedescophones? What's Greek for "German ears"? "Allephone" is too close to "allophone" which has its own meaning.)

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

winding up sleeping in the car early Sunday morning.

How'd you end up doing that? I thought we chased you out the door early enough on Saturday evening for you to get home by midnight.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

You did, but then I got tired of sitting in traffic and went to City Island. It was gaudy but I had a good meal and an argument about why Hillary Clinton is just a priori bad. Then Gigi called me. Then I got wicked lost in either Larchmont or Mamaroneck for an hour. Then a gas station on I-95 in Darien didn't feel like being open for a quarter hour. Then I stayed awake all the way to the Mass border and got on the Pike but I was pulling hairs the last ten miles.