Flying half way around the world will do several things to things to a person: increase tension and irritability, create muscle soreness and back pain, and dehydrate skin, lips, fingernails and eyes. These symptoms may go away after several hours of sleep or downing a liter bottle of Evian, but what lingers for hours, days and weeks is the jet-lag of adjusting to a 12 or 13 hour difference in time.
I secretly take a sick pleasure in staying up all night long fueled by my jet-lag. Full of energy, I preform tasks like running the vacuum at 3a.m. or baking a cake at 4:30 a.m., which would otherwise seem forbidden. I do it just for the thrill of it. And then the sun comes up, and like a vampire I crash. I sleep until late into the afternoon, brew some coffee and repeat my nocturnal schedule on vampire time.
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