Jet lag is for amateurs.
North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.
North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen
Anytime that you get a chance to go from Washington to L.A., I think it's really just getting used to the three-hour time difference.
When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.
Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
