I’m having a bit of trouble re-adjusting to local time after being in London. The first morning after we got back, I woke up at 3:00 am. I tried several times to get back to sleep, but I just wasn’t tired in the slightest. So, I got out of bed, and started going about doing stuff around the house. By six o’clock I was annoyed that the sun had still not yet appeared.
I got to work a bit after nine, which is not unusual in general—what’s unusual is having been awake for six hours by that time.
That night, Vancouver was playing their first NHL Stanley Cup Playoff game, so I figured that would be a good way to keep me up later than I would normally have gone to bed. The game started at 7 pm, and by first intermission I was already yawning. By second intermission (around nine) I didn’t know how I could stay awake any longer.
Vancouver had an early lead, but in the third period they gave up two goals and Dallas had tied the game—this meant overtime. And not five-minute overtime like in the pre-season games—a full fifteen minute period of sudden-death overtime. And if nobody scores in that overtime, it would go on to another one, and another one, etc.
After five minutes of the first overtime, I’d decided I’d had enough—there’s no way I could watch the rest of the game. It was already a quarter past ten and I was about to keel over from exhaustion. The next morning I checked the result—Vancouver had won! But it had taken them four overtime periods to do it. The game had gone on from 7 pm until past midnight. I’d never have been able to stay up for all that!
This morning wasn’t much better—6:22 am. Hopefully I can adjust more on the weekend?
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