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May 24, 2006
Jet Lag Sucks
Categories: Travel
The reason I haven't updated since we've been back from Ireland is that I've been asleep for a week. Yeah, that's it.
Seriously, it did take me several days to really recover. East-West jetlag is always worse for me than West-East. With the later, especially with an overnight flight, you can tough it out on your arrival day, stay up, go to bed at a normal hour, and be fairly adjusted by day two. Not so with the return. We left Dublin at 1:00 Dublin time and arrived back in Charlotte at about 9:00. We got home and I was in bed by 11:00. Of course, I woke up at 5:30 (10:30 Dublin time) and spent the next few days just feeling crappy. It certainly didn't help that a gang of allergies were waiting for me at my house. I thought I had ditched them by going to Ireland, but they just hung around until I got back, then forcably kicked my ass Thursday and Friday. I think I've got them under control now.
Not sure why the East-West adjustment is so much harder than the West-East, but it is for me. I can't imagine what I'f feel like if I had to fly to China or somewhere in the Pacific. I felt bad enough when I was in San Francisco last year.
I've still got some stuff to write about Ireland -- a summary of our last couple of days there, some general reflections and juxtapositions, and an idea for a paper on travel, tourism, and education (or something). Those all should be forthcoming.
(almost finished with Cryptonomicon, btw. Good stuff!)
Posted by Nakia at May 24, 2006 10:15 AM