It's 3.35 AM local time. And I'm awake. Last night I slept 12 hours (9pm to 9am). The night before that I was up until 7 AM because I couldn't fall asleep. And the night before that I slept 10 hours.
Jet lag is a bitch (excuse my French).
Seriously. This is insanity. I haven't been able to properly function for a week now. I am tired all day long and completely awake all night. And I haven't been able to shake it off! Why is travel Eastward across the Pacific so much more brutal than traveling Westward from the Atlantic? You would think that gaining a day would be good for you! Backwards time travel shouldn't be so bad!
And what do people do when they can't sleep at night?! Ridiculous and pointless things! For example:
- Watch re-runs of prime time TV on Hulu
- Starve (I am SO hungry right now but too lazy to get out of bed to get something to eat)
- Read the same news articles over and over again from different sources
- Write and write and write
- Hang out with the equally nocturnal dog
- Reply to random texts from the equally nocturnal brother
- Make long distance phone calls to friends in friendlier time zones
- Think up crazy weird ideas that should be written down but aren't because it's too dark and that would take too much effort
- Read (and hopefully read very uninteresting, painfully boring books)
- Blog
I need a remedy. And I need it now. HELP! How do I cure this jet lag?!?!?
