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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[erisian-fields.livejournal.com]

You call square dances? That's way too cool!

(Okay, that probably says way more about me and where I grew up than anything. Heh!)

[kineticphoenix.livejournal.com]

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

When we've accomplished something and are brain-dead as a result, or if the action was idiot simple and it's taken us awhile to figure it out, riseorbleed and I are often known to say, "I made a volcano, yaaay!"

[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.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

A favorite around my house, after fumbles of very simple tasks, is a sentence of the form "To open the door, you must first be more intelligent than the door." Any verb and noun will do...

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you travel so much. I am soooo impressed (and jealous)!

[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??

[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]

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. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Every so often I get jealous of me too! Usually my life isn't like this, but then I get into big spates of travel. This is definitely one of them. :-)

[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.

say it after me...

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Melatonin is our FRIEND!

Re: say it after me...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ohh yes. Usually it takes me two days to get over that much jet lag, but with melatonin it's only forty-eight hours! ;-)