I am sitting in the hotel lobby at 5:30 in the morning local time. I am not usually up this early, but I'm having trouble with the whole jet-lag thing. When I was in Israel a few weeks ago this was not a problem. I did not get any sleep the night before I left, I slept little on the plane flight (I find it impossible to sleep sitting up), we landed at 8:00 local time, and we spent the whole day touring and stuff. I was able to go to bed at 8:00 that evening and get a full night's sleep, waking up refreshed and adjusted.

Not so with this trip. For some reason I have just not been sleeping very much. I got about 4 hours of sleep the night before I left, and had a hard time sleeping any time during the 23-hour trip (including during the two 3-hour layovers). I got a nice nap yesterday afternoon in the most comfortable bed I have slept on in a long time, and I slept for about 2 hours last night. However, i woke up at about 3:00 this morning and was unable to go back to sleep. I went ahead a took a shower and tried to go to sleep again, but that did not work. Then I tried watching some TV to bore me into sleeping, but that did not work either. Now here I sit, posting some long-needed blog entries from a computer in Norway with a keyboard layout that is frustrating to adjust to... Maybe my body is deciding to move into polyphasic sleep mode of its own accord. That would be cool.

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