Yeah, I’m not feeling the brightest these days. I’ve been outsmarted by the room lights in the hotel (it took over 24 hours to figure out how to turn on the light in the bathroom), lost my phone for about 20 minutes when I hadn’t even left my desk at school, and I can’t remember the rest of my fumbles, but I guess that’s what happens when I’m working on only a few hours of sleep. Not by choice, but because it’s a inevitable part of flying across the world.
The flight from DC was painful. Clearly I survived, but the 13 hours felt just as long as 17 from the west coast. Of course there were 2 little munchkins seated behind us whose mom let them climb all over the seatbacks and kick endlessly, so that didn’t help. My bigger issue was having been in limbo for so long, I was just anxious to hurry up and get there. Anyway, we finally made it, breezed through passport control, and were out of the airport and on our way to the hotel in record time. It was much easier being freed from the hassles of the diplomatic passports.
Thankfully the Intercontinental hotel treats us like royalty. We arrived in time for the evening cocktail hour and had our fill of small plates of Thai seafood salad, beef carpaccio, tomato and mozzarella, and more. I thought I’d be able to sleep all night because of my restless plane flight, but no luck. We woke up at 2 am and killed time until we could go eat breakfast at 6:30am.
Since Josh was headed to a work meeting on day 1, I decided to head into work myself to get a head start on everything that has to be done before the school year begins. It was great to be back, to have a purpose, and to feel productive. In spite of my fuzzy brain, I got a good bit accomplished and I was so proud of myself for making it all day without a nap. Jet lag victory is mine! I went to sleep at 11 and . . . woke up at 2:45 am, feeling as if I had slept for 8 hours instead of 4. Good grief. Stupid body clock.
I’m really hoping that I don’t end up in a zombie state since I actually do have to work today. It’s the first official day back for all the teachers and while it will be fun to catch up with old friends, I have a new work partner that I have to train to do our job while still trying to get everything completed on our task list. I’ll do my best. At least it’s not brain surgery.