Anyone who thinks that jet lag isn’t real hasn’t traveled to the other side of the world. Despite sleeping on the plane, changing eating schedules and doing all those things that you’re supposed to so that you can be able to immediately jump back into your routine, it’s still a very real condition.
It feels a lot like the disorientation that you get when you’ve been sick and your days and nights get all turned around.
We managed to get the luggage upstairs, opened and the laundry sorted. After starting it we decided to “rest our eyes” for just a few minutes, then work on groceries and things.
That was at 10:00 in the morning. At 4:00 in the afternoon, we emerged again, still largely unfunctional. Enough to move the laundry across and go buy essentials at the grocery store – coffee, primarily – but still not able to get our brains together enough to sort the mail or anything like that.
Fortunately, we had the common sense to stop the newspapers while gone; there’s no feeling that they need to be read to get “caught up” with the local news. Anything that happened a month ago is stale, and anyhow, we were able to do quick updates online to follow the big things.
Surprisingly enough, bedtime came along about like normal – 10ish, and we both managed to sleep until about 4:30 in the morning.
Things are getting back to normal.
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