Jet Lag
Imagine enduring a 6 hour connecting flight to Tokyo AND THEN spending another 11 hours of your life tucked away in the corner of an airplane dragging you halfway around the world on a neverending voyage back to Chicago. Studies show that flying eastward makes you more susceptible to jet lag than flying westward. Studies also show that jet lag can be attributed to being dehydrated, as well as being mentally stressed.
Well guess what, I participated in all those three things today:
- I traveled east from Tokyo to the Chicago.
- I’m dehydrated because I had whiskey on the flight, where studies show that alcohol is 2-3 times more potent at the high altitude of 30,000 feet.
- I’m mentally stressed because I accidentally ate eggs in Vietnam and the nosophobic in me has me paranoid about the Bird Flu.
Add them all together and this, my fellow Americans, is what they call the Jet Lag Perfect Storm.
I feel as if I’ve performed the ungodly combination of reading inside of a car and spinning around and around in circles in my office chair and playing Doom or Half Life 2 on my PC all day and sneaking inside a drying machine before telling my sister to please insert 5 quarters and press start. Shrugging off my intense nausea to write this post is a testament of both my incredible will to succeed and my obsession with updating my blog regularly.
More on Vietnam tomorrow, or whenever the floor quits wobbling beneath me.
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I bet Chuck P. would try to get jet lag just for some good stories. I hope you can put it to good use in your writing.
heh.. u got the runs today.
Dan, did you get into a fight with Gallucci or something? You're not going by Dann anymore. What gives?
And I thought I did put my jet lag experience to good use in my writing :(
It's redundant to use the second 'n', so I've stopped, for now.
Regarding the writing, I'm not talking about the blog, I'm talking about your stories/novels. You'd have a lot more space to let something develop using jet lag in those than in even a 2000 word blog.
props for the half life 2 mention, I have missed you!
haha, i feel like when i post something, then no one ever posts after me. Am I your arch nemesis because of this?
Your "Rainy Night in Saigon" picture is really cool. You should post a full Vietnam album on your site.
just to be anal, and moreso cuz i found it interesting, the airplane you were on was probably running closer to 40,000 feet, and around 500 mph (i love GPS). secondly the alcohol affect at 30,000 feet i dont think is true cuz of your cabin pressure, which should be equivalent to around 8,000 feet.
just useless stuff... not to correct you or anything. i only spent 8 hrs in a jet the last two weeks