March 17th, 2008
Non-Sleeper
As I sid in the last blog, I went to bed after chat at around 1am. Then I just laid there, tossing and turning until around 7am in the morning. I may or may not have done some “lengthy blinking” but I sure as heck didn’t get much in the way of real sleep. Around 7am I decided it was better to get up and be really tired all day than to sleep all afternoon and just make the problem worse.
I added some stuff to my freshly-reinstalled desktop computer and started downloading some TV shows that I had missed. I was already current on Doctor Who, and new episodes don’t start until later this spring anyway, but I had heard good things about Torchwood and the new Sarah Connor Terminator series, so I figured I’d give them a look. It’ll be a day or two before they are ready to watch. The final episode of LOST doesn’t come on for a few more days, but I’ll probably catch that on regular TV for once. Fortunately, I don’t watch much TV even when I’m not in Japan; for the most part it’s a massive waste of time.
I spent a little time in my office today, cleaning up old paperwork and junk. I had a lot of “in-process” school papers and applications for the Japan trip and things like that cluttering my desk. Toward the end of last summer, I had shut down the business and everything was about my Master’s Thesis or Japan related. I tossed most of this stuff. I have an appointment with my tax accountant on Friday, and I have to get ready for that. I did a bunch of tax preparation before I left, so I am not quite sure how much work that’s going to be now.
Around 2pm, I drove to the local Community College and went to their pool. I’m not sure what the pool schedule is for the Home University during the week, since they only have Spring Quarter hours posted online. I’m an alumni at the Community College, and their pool is just as good (and usually less crowded), so I decided to go there. Wow, I needed that; my back hasn’t felt this good in months! I should have realized as my back got worse and worse in Japan that there was a reason for it. Swimming always helps my back, but I never seem to remember that when my back is actually messed up. The pool in Okayama was uncomfortable because of all the staring, but I could have gone once in a while if I had thought it would actually make me feel better. Oh well, NOW I know.
Anyway, I drove home and then pretty much went straight to bed. That was probably around 6pm, and I did sleep more or less straight through until 6am on the next day. Hopefully that’ll be the end of my jetlag problems.
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