Jet Lag

[zsenya at sugarquill.com]

> The question is, which way to most people feel is worse? East, or 
> West?
> 
> Heather

I just remembered about this list and am catching up as well. I'm 
glad to hear that the London meeting was fun and am sorry I missed it 
(I got to go see "Art" in Milton Keynes instead! It was hilarious)

Generally, for me, heading east is worse. For some reason, two or 
three days later I'm still feeling sort of hazy.  On my most recent 
trip last week though, I have to say that I pretty much avoided jet 
lag throughout.  When I arrived in England, my friend kept me up late 
and I had a good night's sleep and was well rested and alert for the 
rest of the week.  Coming home, well, I was up for about 20 hours, 
considering that my friend decided she wanted to drive me to Gatwick 
(I volunteered to take the train) and it took us 3 hours through 
London traffic to get there.  I got back to the states around 4:30 pm
(after the most hellacious, bumpy, scary landing I've ever had the 
pleasure to sit through. I hate flying).  And only managed to stay 
awake until 8 pm.  But, that meant that I had been up more than 20 
hours.   For some reason though, that one early night was enough.  
I've been fine ever since. It's my third day back and I'm still 
waiting for haziness to attack, but it hasn't.  Maybe it's worse the 
further away that you are.  Previous overseas trips have taken me to 
places further west than England, so maybe that extra hour or two is 
enough to make jet lag really bad.

:)Zsenya