jet lag

i have no idea where i was when i started this thread, only that i was in the exact same situation, being, up at 5am and annoyed about it and obsessing over potato croquettes.

FOR THE RECORD i didn't nap yesterday.

and that includes during the manoel de oliveira movie which was the most boring thing i have ever seen.

I've been getting over it for the past few days. Definitely something enervating.

i don't get why i'm up early! shouldn't that be like the opposite of what should be happening?

i hate jet lag

I went on a 5-day cruise over last New Year and the jet leg on return to the UK from the US was combined with the horrible feeling that the world was still gently rocking. This lasted several days. It was horrific.

wow that's ruff!

and heeeeeeeeeerrrrrre we go the other way. gonna make a bolognese to keep my mind off falling asleep

did +10 hours on saturday/sunday. six hours good sleep on the plane (so good i slept through two meals being served). no naps required for two days. bed around 11pm, woke around 7am. this is better than my usual schedule, which should have been a clue that something was up. aaaaaaaand wednesday I wake up at 4am local time with crushing headache. feels like a really bad hangover. fuuuuuuuuuuck.

weird. for me, if i get through the first day w/o a nap it's all (ahem) cake from there

wahahah it's 11 am and I want to go to bed wahahaha

that's my usual workday

Thought I was over it easy after my Saturday flight and Sunday rest -- then the headache from hell arrived on Monday...

back in jersey dyao?

yep yep

waking up with a splitting headache, how is it not awesome?

Means that I wake up on time for work for at least a few weeks.

heyyyy

I actually like being awake at night, you can read and listen to music quietly. The hard part is the afternoon when you pass out in front of clients :(

Stayed up 24 hours

Slept 3 hours

Ready for a whole new day

slept three hours Saturday night in NYC and welp hi

I compare jet lag offsets to semitones. Flying to Asia from DC and being 10-13 hours off is fine. Flying to Europe and being 5-7 hours off is brutal. 3 hours is trivia, which doesn't hold up the analogy, I guess.

had the worst jetlag of my life last week, after a 30 hour flight (including connections) from South India. bolt upright at 5am, at 2pm i would hit a wall of exhaustion and it took all my effort not to crash at work, then in bed by 7-8 pm. took 3 full days to shake it off

I can't believe you only took 3 days for that. how long were you over?

2 weeks

i may still have been jet lagged on Saturday, couldn't really tell. got back Tuesday late afternoon so really 4 days

I also somehow didn't get 'tlagged on the way there? that way we flew direct, 20 hours

that's my experience too, flying west across the pacific and having the time be basically the opposite of whatever time it is at home is like, whatever!

this is interesting tbh

not sure i dong prefer it to my normal state, in which i almost never feel that ive had enough sleep (nb this feeling would be 100% correct)

it genuinely feels like i fell into the back of the time/space couch tho, its not just a sleep thing. totally displaced. are there drugs i should try while my mind is this open?

because of the dong

It’s not easy but I try to get to sleep