Eating and Sleeping, Part One
I wish I had something scintillating to write here, but shamefully, I don't. This is because the plane trip really wiped me out, and I have spent the day variously eating and sleeping.
I feel really bad for having not strayed far from my hotel room - what sort of backpacker am I? But my hotel is at the edge of town, and I've been so damn tired. At first I couldn't figure out why. Sure, the 14 hours of travel was both boring and gruelling. But nothing that a good night's sleep couldn't fix. And then I realised that "a good night's sleep" was the key. During the six weeks between the end of uni and getting on the plane, I was averaging about four hours of sleep a night. Not because I've been out so much - although that post-exam glut of parties, the Christmas ones and the "quiet-get-togethers" probably added up in the end - but because I've been going through an insomniac kinda phase, which happens once in a while.
I just didn't realise how much I needed to sleep until I flew to another country and forgot to do anything exciting. Plus, when else am I going to have the chance to laze around in my underwear, watching MTV Asia, Star World, and the Asian version of the world news? (The media nerd in me was exeptionally excited to discover the biases and language quirks in "objective reporting" in Asia. Also, the fact that MTV was running cute little cartoons promoting the importance of condom use was interesting.)
As this is entitled "Eating and Sleeping", not "Jess's Various Self-Justifications", here are some things I have eaten in the last two days;
Plane food.
Airport food.
Dried plum lollies, which are dried plums (prunes?) covered in a glaze of some description and then dusted with flavourings. The orange version I would not recommend. The liquorice plums though - heaven. Heaven on a prune.
A plate of complementary lychees (last night's dinner).
Seafood noodles (today's lunch).
Sauteed spinach and chilli squid (dinner).
Three bananas.
Some watermelon.
Apart from that, there's nothing to see here, folks. My world has become so temporarily insular that I'm blogging about the fulfilment of my primal needs. In fact, the only new things I have discovered here have had to do with my own body - three new insect bites on my right ankle, and a bruise.
Of course, I don't intend to spend the entire trip sleeping, (or writing about sleeping). Tomorrow I'm going to find and drink a glass of champagne, move my stuff into a nice, dingy backpacker's hotel, book a train ticket to Hanoi, and let the fun begin.
Wish me luck.
I feel really bad for having not strayed far from my hotel room - what sort of backpacker am I? But my hotel is at the edge of town, and I've been so damn tired. At first I couldn't figure out why. Sure, the 14 hours of travel was both boring and gruelling. But nothing that a good night's sleep couldn't fix. And then I realised that "a good night's sleep" was the key. During the six weeks between the end of uni and getting on the plane, I was averaging about four hours of sleep a night. Not because I've been out so much - although that post-exam glut of parties, the Christmas ones and the "quiet-get-togethers" probably added up in the end - but because I've been going through an insomniac kinda phase, which happens once in a while.
I just didn't realise how much I needed to sleep until I flew to another country and forgot to do anything exciting. Plus, when else am I going to have the chance to laze around in my underwear, watching MTV Asia, Star World, and the Asian version of the world news? (The media nerd in me was exeptionally excited to discover the biases and language quirks in "objective reporting" in Asia. Also, the fact that MTV was running cute little cartoons promoting the importance of condom use was interesting.)
As this is entitled "Eating and Sleeping", not "Jess's Various Self-Justifications", here are some things I have eaten in the last two days;
Plane food.
Airport food.
Dried plum lollies, which are dried plums (prunes?) covered in a glaze of some description and then dusted with flavourings. The orange version I would not recommend. The liquorice plums though - heaven. Heaven on a prune.
A plate of complementary lychees (last night's dinner).
Seafood noodles (today's lunch).
Sauteed spinach and chilli squid (dinner).
Three bananas.
Some watermelon.
Apart from that, there's nothing to see here, folks. My world has become so temporarily insular that I'm blogging about the fulfilment of my primal needs. In fact, the only new things I have discovered here have had to do with my own body - three new insect bites on my right ankle, and a bruise.
Of course, I don't intend to spend the entire trip sleeping, (or writing about sleeping). Tomorrow I'm going to find and drink a glass of champagne, move my stuff into a nice, dingy backpacker's hotel, book a train ticket to Hanoi, and let the fun begin.
Wish me luck.
posted by Jess at 6:29 AM
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