Enter the Jetlag Brick

[pallas_athena]

Hurrah, I'm back! And feeling as though my brain's been hit with the Jetlag BrickTM, but that's only to be expected, I guess.

(Short rant) I hate night flights going east. Losing a night sucks. Unfortunately, during the winter, it seems like that's all there is. Flights from Britain to the US happen during the day; flights from the US to Britain happen overnight. During the summer, some airlines do an early morning flight out of DC, and I fly this way when I can, because it's so much easier to lose a day than a night. True, you have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to go to the airport, or not sleep at all-- but then, when you get back to Britain, you can stagger home and fall straight into bed. Vastly preferable to the night flight strategy, in which you arrive in the morning, push on through a bleary-eyed day in zombie style, give up and collapse about 5pm or so, wake up at 3.30am feeling fresh as a daisy, go "ugghh" and repeat for several days.

But I'm glad to be back! No, really! Just don't be surprised if you call me and I have problems speaking coherent English. Blurgle.

Comments

[orkamedies.livejournal.com]

Well having meet the god of all zombies himself i am sure i can call you and we can then talk fluent zombie speak...

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

brrrraaaaaiiiiiinnnsssss!!!

[speedlime.livejournal.com]

I think it's something in the airline peanut preservatives that makes you a zombie. See, we thought the peanut ban was the result of allergies, but NO, it's really due to the tireless crusading of the ANTI-ZOMBIE forces, who can never come out in the open because people just wouldn't believe that zombies are real! Yeah!

Ummm.... I think I need to go back to work now...

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or would "Peanut Zombies On A Plane" be, like, the best movie EVER?

[captrenault.livejournal.com]

Dude, whatever you do, don't do what I did the last time -- drink to pass out fall asleep nicer, and wake up hungover AND jetlagged.

Awful. Simply awful. Out of body experience does not begin to describe it.

Then again, you're smarter than I am, so no doubt you've figured this out without needing to go through it.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

oooh, hangover plus airplane-induced dehydration....not good. I'd call it a get-me-out-of-this-body experience. Glad you survived!

[burryman.livejournal.com]

Well from the bottom up, the flight east is, like: there's one LESS day I gotta struggle through.

[laughingmagpie.livejournal.com]

Argh! Jet lag! It just sucks no matter which way you go.

I do remember that I got over jet lag the fastest when I went to New Zealand, while Europe was the hardest. I've wondered whether the 12hour difference just so thoroughly obliterated my sleep schedule that I recovered faster :-)

Glad to hear you had a safe journey though!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

I'd love to go to NZ... maybe it's the presence of the One Ring that negates jetlag? Yes preciousssssss.