So, here’s where I’m at: hopeful, yet not going anywhere fast.

It’s like traveling. Yes, I did recently travel, and a few of my posts have been using that experience in stories and such. Anyway, when you travel, there’s always the act of traveling. Gotta pack, gotta get to the airport, gotta go through security, etc. There’s a lot of actions that get done quickly and in a matter of a day, you’re now 1,700 miles away at your destination.

First few days, you’re pretty ecstatic. You’ve made it! You’re at your destination! Things are different, new and wonderful. Everyday things become exciting and an adventure.

After those first few days, you just seem to lose the momentum that you had. What was exciting is now just blah… This is where you have to just work. To just do what needs to be done. This is where the next breakthrough comes from.

Maybe it’s something like a windup toy. The fast explosion of movement is a result of the steady and hard work put into the winding of the toy and not going anywhere. It all averages out.

So here I am, winding my toy.

Sometimes, things just aren’t they way you think they should be.

Cowboys and Aliens? Not so much of a disappointment. I actually enjoyed it.

Working out? Pretty fun too.

The disappointment was that I simply couldn’t do as much as I hoped. I’m disappointed I’m so sore.

But that’s that.

This could be some awesome post about how nothing stays the same and that everything changes and even when you go back home things will aways be different.

No.

It’s about how much traveling sucks. In particular, how much adjusting to the new time zone you’re in sucks. Like today. Today I’m suffering from the dreaded west to east syndrome. WTES, as it’s commonly know, it one of the worse. You set your alarm to wake up at what your brain thinks is a normal, reasonable hour. But when that hour come, BAM! Your brain’s all “WTF, mate” and totally feels like you’ve drank a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, minus the slice of lemon.

You spend the day in a haze, downing as much caffeine as you deem safe, but nothing seems to work. Then, here’s the kicker, about eight o’clock at night, all your energy come back! You finally feel alive! You can do things, you can think, you can live your life to it’s fullest. BUT, it’s time for bed.

Now you have two options. 1, you can go and lay in bed till about 3 hours past your bed time, or 2, you can stay up and do things till you get tired and go to bed 4 hours past your bed time. Which all leads into a lack of sleep then to tired morning and day.

So what are you left to do?

There are actual, proven ways to fix jet lag, like get sunlight as soon as you wake up, eat meals at the right time, try to go to bed at the right time, but you’re not here for that. You want my super secret methods that are even more proven and actual! Luck you, here they are:

1. Caffeine. Use it to stay up for one whole day. Say you land at 6 PM, start hitting that caffeine until you stay up a whole day THEN the time remaining to a reasonable hour. So in this case, 11 PM.
2. Whine about it. While it won’t make you adjust any faster, it’ll make you feel like better. You are doing something amazing and if people aren’t making allowances for you or singing your praise, it’s just not fair and they should be told.
3. Bright lights. This is used in conjunction with number 1. The whole time you need to be in the sun, and once the sun goes down, you need to be in bright lights the whole night. In order to get your circadianrhythm back into alignment, you need to kill it dead.

I hope these helpful tips helped you.

I’m in my own bed. And I’m happy. I’m rested. I’m ready to go to work tomorrow.