When will the jet lag end?
December 5th, 2007
For days and days now, it’s been ‘wake up at 4 or 5 a.m., stay awake for an hour reading e-mail and blog posts, then go back to bed, drowse on and off till the alarm rings at 6:45, go downstairs and spend an hour drinking tea, feeding fish and trying to kick myself into consciousness, then go to work, work till 5 p.m., then go home, run down like an old wind-up watch between 6 and 7 p.m., sleep from 7 to 9 or 9:30 p.m., wake up, spend half an hour or so with Asif, then head back up and go to bed…till 4 or 5 a.m….
Hence, no blog posts. No titles or tags on my Beijing photos. No fabulous stories about the Forbidden City, the Great Wall (you take a gondola up, and toboggan back down), the Terracotta Soldiers. At least not yet. Soon, soon, hopefully once I get to the weekend.
Some good news: the new winter Knitty is up, and this issue’s column is a bit less miserable than the last one. Enjoy! It was originally supposed to be a Dear Santa letter but Amy reminded me that Knitty is, quite rightly, nondenominational and that there are many people out there who worship Santa. Or think he’s Jesus. Or something. Anyway, the recipient has changed but the seasonal sentiments remain the same.
If you’ve ever seen me hurling shoppers out of my way in a crowded mall while screaming obscenities, you’ll know what those sentiments are.
I actually did do some knitting on the plane to and from China, and I’ll tell you more about that soon. Promise.
9 Comments Add your own
1. Christina | December 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
So Jesus came before Judaism? What about the whole “BC” period? I don’t — even — know.
(I hope your body’s clock resets soon!)
2. Andres P. Nevarez | December 6th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Actually Jesus was a Jew that practiced JUDAISM!!! I am glad you are getting yourself together, hope to see pictures soon? Cheer up and Santa or Someone will bring you presents soon!
3. Diane | December 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I love the article\. Your family sounds just like mine. My teenage son had a few sarcastic comments about the pillow photograph, though.
4. Shelley | December 7th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Hi David,
Thanks for another fab column. I was thinking of printing it and leaving it subtly around for ‘Santa’ to see until I got to the cushions! Definitely unsafe printing for work. At least not at my work, anyway…although would almost be worth it for the look on Bosses face…
On the sleepless issue, have you tried Dream Time bath melts from Lush? They work every time for me.
5. Steph F. | December 8th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Glad you’re back from China!
That video clip nearly gave me an aneurysm though.
Here’s a really cute one for your “music to knit by” queue!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY
It’s a VEGETABLE ORCHESTRA!
6. minnie | December 9th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
i kept envisioning santa and elves in the middle of this letter, and i about died! very good!
7. bstewart23 | December 11th, 2007 at 7:29 am
What is it to get over jet lag, “one day for every hour of time-difference”? That seems to be the rule for me, and I generally reject old-wifey rules like that. Ten days it took me, after our last trip. Hope you’re back in the groove by now.
Also? Awesome photos of your trip, David. Those food photos are near-pornographic in their deliciousness.
8. david_demchuk | December 11th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Oh, I could go on about the food for days! We had cheap food, we had expensive food, we had street food, and all of it was delicious.
The only bad meal we had was, unfortunately, at the only halal restaurant we found–it was a hotpot, but with water instead of broth. Everyone else in the restaurant seemed to like it, but to us it was just boiled meat and boiled vegetables. Bleah.
Otherwise all the food was splendid, and worthy of the mouthwatering fantasies the pictures inspire.
And yes, it’s true–it really does take a day of recovery for every hour of time difference. Unfortunately, we hadn’t recovered from our jet lag going there before we gave ourselves a fresh dose coming back. I’ve only just started sleeping through the night and waking at a kind of normal hour. It was all worth it, though.
9. Jen | December 13th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I so feel your pain. I’m on the east coast after the west coast, and I’m not feeling like it’s 3 hours later. Going back to the east coast after Spain sucked, as well. It was 2 a.m, and I was wide awake.
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