jet lagging

[cjsmith]

It just occurred to me to check on the time zones for my upcoming trip. Helsinki is ten hours east of here. It's in the same time zone as Tallinn, making a day trip down there easy. When we take the ferry to Stockholm for my square dance calling job, we'll have to remember to set our watches back an hour. I don't often have time zone changes in the middle of a trip! (Well, unless you count the holiday trips that went San Jose to Boston to Louisville. The latter two cities are in the same time zone, but the families I visit have schedules about five hours apart. Flying from Louisville back to San Jose is "east" by the body clock.)

Helsinki is also in the same time zone as Cairo (hi lkeele!), thus this trip will tie my lifetime record for absolute magnitude of jet lag. In January, Tokyo will tie it again, with ten hours the other way.

I estimate my IQ upon arrival at 74. My brain is staplede in yay.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yep, and I certainly wouldn't have predicted that people in Stockholm and in Tokyo would hire me to do it! :-) I have amazingly good fortune sometimes.

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that you're still calling. It's been quite a few years, hasn't it? I haven't danced since my son was a sling baby, so it's been a few years since I was on the floor. Yes, we danced with my son in a sling on my back a few times. It was interesting. Played havoc on the center of gravity, lemme tell ya - we weren't doing a lot of wild twirling then. Hee hee.

I'm also really surprised to hear that this is a 'thing' overseas too. How in the world (no pun intended) did you hook up with jobs like that??

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It sure has. I've been calling since... (short break for math involving fingers) 1992.

I can't imagine twirling with a baby in a sling! Yi, I'd fall over!

Oddly enough there are square dance clubs widely scattered around the globe. Japan, the UK, Scandinavia, and Germany are particularly fond of it. I got booked for the Japan job when I was at a square dance in Maryland. A gal who stands as tall as my shoulder told me I was "famous" in Japan, because dancers there had heard recordings of me. I was pretty surprised! The Stockholm one was through the couple rfrench and I stayed with LAST time we were there, when HE was the caller they had booked. They found me through him; I don't know how they found him. :-)