home from the sea
Aug. 28th, 2025 09:24 amGot in last night around quarter of ten, to a very affectionate cat. He's currently curled up on the heating-pad mat next to the laptop, where he's been for most of the last couple of hours. I think he may have missed me.
This is admittedly the most jetlag I've ever tried to recover from, but I am just not getting it. Been crashing out early and waking up after five or sometimes six hours' sleep. I made it home last night due to copious applications of caffeine and sugar, and still woke up at four AM. Hopefully being Actually Home will suffice to reset my system.
In Pattern Recognition, William Gibson talks about jetlag as a result of traveling faster than humans were meant to travel, so your soul needs time to catch back up to your body. As a description of the sensation it's about right.
Today: shower, unpack, get groceries (ordered, just need to pick up once ready), therapy, farmers market. Probably watch the last two episodes of season 3 of Slow Horses, since I watched S1 on the plane to Paris, S2 on the plane from Paris, and the first four of S3 on the plane from Mpls. Possibly rave about how great that show is. Ideally write up the next stage of the travelogue, but I'm not pushing it.
Meant to link these yesterday but forgot, so, have some Wendy Cope:
Onward.
This is admittedly the most jetlag I've ever tried to recover from, but I am just not getting it. Been crashing out early and waking up after five or sometimes six hours' sleep. I made it home last night due to copious applications of caffeine and sugar, and still woke up at four AM. Hopefully being Actually Home will suffice to reset my system.
In Pattern Recognition, William Gibson talks about jetlag as a result of traveling faster than humans were meant to travel, so your soul needs time to catch back up to your body. As a description of the sensation it's about right.
Today: shower, unpack, get groceries (ordered, just need to pick up once ready), therapy, farmers market. Probably watch the last two episodes of season 3 of Slow Horses, since I watched S1 on the plane to Paris, S2 on the plane from Paris, and the first four of S3 on the plane from Mpls. Possibly rave about how great that show is. Ideally write up the next stage of the travelogue, but I'm not pushing it.
Meant to link these yesterday but forgot, so, have some Wendy Cope:
Onward.