Jet Lag

How do people recover from being Half a World Away? I guess if you don't work the next day, its a bit easier to recover. Who is Billy Bender? There were 4 messages on my machine with urgent info for him. Does that sound like a cartoon character or someone who is actually wanted by the bank who was calling? Am I supposed to call them back to tell them that Billy does not exist? There weren't even 4 messages for ME, and the phone number is actually mine. I have been traveling for the last 3 days. I spent 56+ hours in transit, and slept only 1 hour of the last 30 of that 56 hours. I'm sure there's some type of equation there, and that this sentence would make sense to someone else who is as jet lagged as me- or maybe drunk. Jet lag is a lot like being drunk. Its hard to form sentences, you want to laugh a lot at things that are not at all funny, and most of the time you want to go to sleep. Now I am back in the real world, listening to Jim Rome and hearing that Bush is stupid and Rumsfeld may be forced to resign. That would be nice. The rain and storms that stranded me in Chicago (O'Hare) for 10 hours yesterday have followed me to St. Louis. Welcome home, here's a downpour for you!! It reminds me of riding a bike in the pouring rain in Bejing, only that was more fun. And now for the stream of consciousness and not necessarily interesting part of what I am thinking!!:::: Maybe its in the haze of jet lag that I have made some plans that I am going to put here. If its public and accessible to me anywhere, anytime, I will be more likely to keep it current and to follow through. I am going to plan to travel for at least a year, beginning the saving and scheduling process today, May 11, 2004. Maybe by this point in 2006 I will be ready. Two years ago this month, I set out on a 17-state, 2-province tour of North America. That trip was about 5 months in planning, I figure a larger scale trip requires about twice the planning time and 4x the saving money time. I've seen the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and now a very tiny part of China. The next part of the goal is South America, Asia, and Africa. Australia is a possibility, but not top priority. Europe will have to wait, though I have more places to crash with friends in Europe than anywhere else. There is much to be determined, but now is as good a time as any to begin thinking of it!! If Bush gets a second term, somtime in the next 4 years would be the ideal time to live elsewhere. It he's succeeded by another buffoon, staying abroad is always an option.