jetlag, nytol, and "wake-ups"

At this time of year, Tokyo and Toronto are some ten hours off-set. This is my third switch across that big gap in eight weeks.

I don't know how people who routinely flit back and forth across such great distances do it. I've met several, I know that they're out there, I just don't know what they're made of.

As for me, I've had an average of about four hours sleep a night, and now that I'm back at work it's no more napping (damn these low cubicle walls). Enough of going it alone, I'm trying something new. As I write this, I'm currently stumbling through the late afternoon on a "wake-up" caffeine pill. They're like the migraine drugs I take but pared down to just the 100mg of (synthetic) caffeine. Doesn't ease the exhaustion but it certainly gives me something .. I've managed to knock off some to-do items despite being barely able to keep my eyes open.

And for tonight? I've lined up a date with "extra strength Nytol". Yes, yes, liver, I know. Shhhhhh.