Bio clock gone haywire

It's been over two weeks since I got back from abroad and I'm still badly jetlagged (note the time stamp of this post). The fact that the past two weeks have been particularly stressful at work hasn't helped at all.

Yesterday for example--the first day of classes here, by the way--I was constantly running in and out of my office to post announcements, to talk with people, to answer and to make telephone calls. (The different department here normally have one or two phones only and these naturally are located in main office where the administrative staff have their desks). And then there were the students with problems with their schedules and enrollment who kept coming to my office. In the end, I couldn't escape so to speak and only got to have my lunch at 3:00pm. It was a relief that there was kind of a lull after that (hmmm...maybe setting my "whereabouts" thingy at my door to "will be back soon" kept people away) but still it was nearly 6:00pm when I got to leave work. So I got home, brought my things to my bedroom, took a quick shower, changed into my house clothes and lay down on my bed to take a quick nap--or so I thought. I woke up only to find that it was nearly 3:00am. I had missed my dinner--which wasn't so bad since I wasn't that hungry anyway having had a very late lunch--and another episode of Frasier (reruns on Star World).

And so, my sleeping pattern has remained thus: a nap immediately after coming home from work (followed by dinner) or else from 9/10pm (after dinner) to 12mn and then a period of wakefulness in the wee hours of the morning. That's usually followed by another attempt to get some shuteye before I get ready for another day at work. Oh well.

It's really strange though how I quickly overcome my jet lag whenever I go abroad. When I went to visit my sister this summer, I was up and about during the day and sleeping during the night by the third day. The same thing happened when I went to Rome three years ago. Of course it wasn't so bad then since there was just a six-hour difference between Rome and Singapore/Manila whereas there's the twelve-hour difference between here and eastern Canada/US.

Oooh. There's a replay of the Frasier episode shown last night starting right now. Got to go to watch. Now that's one non-stressful thing to do, 'ey?