I'm very happy to say that travel as relatively uneventful. My flight was delayed by over an hour and I was in danger of missing my connection from Newark to Lisbon. So, as a precaution, they reserved me seats on a flight to Paris and then to Lisbon. So, if I missed my connecting flight, I'd still get to Lisbon on time. Although I did need to run from gate to gate, I made it in time and there were no problems.
The flight itself was also uneventful. On this plane they had really cool individual touch screens for everyone. You could select at will any of 40 movies, 100 or so tv episodes, or 150 cd's. Sadly, I never got the cd's to work, depriving me of falling asleep to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." Really, the big problem was that there was so much to watch, so little time (the flight was only 6 hours and change), and I really needed to spend most of those hourse sleeping to cash in on my pre-jetlag experiment.
As far as that goes, I did take a 45 min nap when I got to my hotel this morning, but other than that, I've been able (more or less) to stave off sleep. I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be able to sleep much of the night tonight. It's kinda of funny that in the afternoon, I had to fight not to fall asleep, but now I'm worried about being able to get to sleep. Ugh, I forgot to mention the hour line getting through customs. Fortunately I had my own mix of michael Jackson's greatest hits to occupy me. Coincidentally, there was a PYT 2 people in front of me that I had to visually occupy me (if you don't know what that means, go listen to one of my new favorite Michael songs of the same name).
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