March 19th, 2008
Fuzzy, Blurry Day #6
Yeah, I know whining about non-sleep isn’t an exciting read, but it’s real and it’s part of the traveling experience, so here it is. I could mention the weather, but it hasn’t changed; it’s rained non-stop since I got back to town. The TV’s top news stories are about floods everywhere.
I got up at some in the morning. I don’t remember any more. As far as I can tell, the whole jet-lag situation in the fall actually may have taken as much as two weeks to settle down. I had assumed that was because I had nowhere to go after it got dark and had nothing to do but take naps and sleep. I had assumed since there was plenty to do here in the States that I’d be back on schedule more quickly. I guess it’s not going to be as easy as I expected. I am still going to avoid napping, but the way this just goes on and on is just ridiculous.
Anyway, I went through my mail today. Nothing but junk primarily. No bills or anything like that, but lots of stuff about domain names and a big stack of English Teacher magazines I subscribed to last spring. I gathered together some paperwork for getting my taxes done. This year is really simple I think. I made only a little money in the first few months of the year, then nothing over the summer since classes were intensely busy. In August I got paid for the exchange student program, and then I was off to Japan. I don’t know if I’m supposed to pay taxes on the money from Japan. How would they even know how much I made there? I guess that’s question number one for the accountant.
Then I did the pool again. I guess I’m building up to where I was before my long break. Before I left, I could easily tread water for two hours. I probably could go a lot longer than two hours, but that’s as long as the pool is open, so I never got a chance to go longer. Monday I was lucky to do 10 minutes a couple of times. I think I was up to about 45 minutes today, so I’m getting built up pretty quickly again.
Once I got home, I had a couple of miniature frozen pizzas. They were not the best things going; I want a real pizza before too much longer. Then it was back to bed around 8pm. I woke up again about 3-1/2 hours later and was up the rest of the night. Sigh.
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