Week of daze

A whole week passed by after I came back from my RoundTrip, and I was dazed. I wasn't sure if I was and I wasn't sure why, but I had a strange feeling of daze I don't recall ever feeling before. The first days were understandable - I was tired and jetlagged from crossing 11 timezones back to Austin, so I rested. The first day I woke up late, ate cereal, surfed the internet, ate some more, and then went to sleep. First day, I deserved some rest. But then the same thing happened the next day. And then the next. And the next.

But I knew something was wrong, because I had these thoughts in the back of my head that said "Hey! Hey, yeah, you, listen! You've got stuff to do! You still have postcards and souvenirs to send in the mail, you've gotta plan your trip to Guatemala, you have to figure out how to transition into Pittsburgh, plan your meetings with friends here in Austin! Why aren't you doing any of that?" But I was somehow acting only by inertia, I wasn't really thinking. So I just kept on eating and sleeping (and playing some Xbox in between), day after day after day.

Until yesterday. Yesterday I was playing Xbox when, through about 5 minutes, the responsible part of my mind took over. It thought of stuff I had to do, and my body responded! I felt more alert, I could think clearly - it was as if my self-charger had chimed "Charging... FULL! (bell chime)", and my whole being just reacted. Quite a feeling.

Anyway, I call this week my week of daze. People have told me my body needed a long break to relax from my long trip, and though I don't understand why, I'm guessing they're right. Now I've already answered all my emails, looked for more apartments in Pittsburgh, held a reservation for a round-trip ticket to Guatemala, and even wrote a blog entry! If I keep this pace, I'll be done with most things by Thursday!