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.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My brain is staplede in yay.

74? After a transatlantic flight. That's over where I think mine usually has been after one of those.

Can I stow away when you go to Tokyo? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Heck, if you speak Japanese I'm tempted to let you have the seat and I'll stow away. I don't have time for the languages this fall! I'm utterly failing to learn any Finnish and I have only a little Japanese.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's one of the numerous languages in which I only know enough to get my face slapped. Especially so with Japanese, as what I learned came from a former coworker who taught me some pretty naughty stuff.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, you have to teach me! e-mail?

I could try to avoid the face-slapping: I can say "excuse me" and "I'm sorry" a lot. Those are early on my list to learn in any language! :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, you have to teach me! e-mail?

Sukebe (skay'-bee : "deviant, perverted, usually in a light-hearted, friendly sense")! :-) I've made myself a note to dig out some of the notes I got from my former coworker after I get back from Chicago this weekend.