It’s taking forever to shake off this jetlag from my Europe trip. Last night I went to bed about 10pm. I slept and later woke up and felt like it must be around 6am. I thought I’d just lie in until the alarm went off for my wife to get ready for work. But I tossed and turned for about two hours, unable to go back to sleep, and no alarm. So I risked a glance at the clock (normally I avoid looking at the clock during the night when trying to fall asleep again)… and it read 3:45. And I was now wide awake.
I got up and went to the living room and read a book for about an hour, to see if that would make me feel sleepy. Then went back to bed and tried to fall asleep, without much luck. At 6am I gave up and just got up and had breakfast and started my day.
For some reason this was worse than the night before, when I slept longer. I felt after that I’d have a good chance of sleeping through the night and essentially being over the jetlag. But now it feels almost like I’m back at square one. I suspect it might have been caused by the nap in had in the morning yesterday.
So today I just toughed it out, staying up and active, despite hitting a tiredness cliff in the early afternoon. Hopefully I’ll sleep longer tonight. It’s weird. I can adjust to jetlag quickly when going somewhere – I had essentially no problems at all in Europe after arriving there. But coming home is always much tougher.
Anyway, I didn’t do much today beyond teaching my Outschool ethics classes, and making a new Darths & Droids strip. So not much else to say.