Really bad jet lag.

08:09:2005
For anyone remotely interested, a description of how my return from the US affected my sleep.

I wake up at 4.30 am and stay awake until about 9am, when I crash out for a couple of hours, wake up and stay tired for the rest of the day, even if I take another nap. I finally go to bed between 8pm and 11pm but still wake up before dawn. Jet lag is supposed to go away after the number of days corresponding to the number of time zones you have crossed but this one appears to be permanent. One benefit of living this fucked up circadian rhythm is I’m always awake before the kids and can get them dressed, breakfasted and happily started on their 3 hour morning TV session before My entire body rotates 90 degrees more or less against my will and ----I takes over.
I was so tired yesterday evening that I went to bed with the kids and woke up again at midnight. It is now 4.17 am and I am flagging. My plan now is to go back to bed, wake up in 4 hours or so and make it through the next day using any fair or foul means to make it through the day without any more sleep. Then to bed at 10-ish and hopefully sleep the whole night through and lick this bastard. I’d keep you posted but my internet access is a bit hit-and-miss right now so you may hear nothing for the next six months.
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One benefit of this screwed-up sleep pattern situation is that for some reason I have been having the first lucid dreams of my life, meaning I am aware I am dreaming and have limited control over the course of my dreams. It’s a tricky thing to do because if I try too hard I wake up. I just about learned how to control my flight (yes, I can fly) when I got the bright idea that unlimited sex fantasies could be realised and promptly found myself in bed in Vienna. Later on that morning –m climbed into our bed and pissed in it.

-m- is cute as a button and happily shuffling around. We took her to see ----a who is only 10 days older and discovered she shuffles the same way. We also learned that --------e, born a bit earlier but in the same year also shuffles instead of crawls. Obvoisly we are witnessing a new development in human evolution. Shuffling is a bit hard to describe but it basically goes: right leg out, lean forward, transfer weight to one or two hands on floor, bring torso, legs and bum forward until right leg is bent, then right leg out again. The benefit over more traditional crawling is that the child can look ahead while moving and even free up a hand that can carry something. The disadvantage is the left shin sweeps the floor and becomes absolutely filthy, sometimes gets tangled up in electrical cords or picks up a plastic bag or other detritus and drags it along behind.



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