27 May 2009

Better to arrive than to travel

So if you're boarding an overnight flight of four or five hours, landing at a time your body considers to be 3am in order to wait four hours for another four-hour flight, what would you do?

Sleep? Watch VOD? Catch up with some reading?

I worked for most of the first flight and for a further two hours after landing, frantically revising a piece delayed by domestic difficulties and now overdue. Having filed it from the business lounge in Toronto, and then having found myself upgraded to business class, I thought on the flight south to Montego Bay (Jamaica for the geographically unlettered) I'd be able to sleep the sleep of if not the just, at least of the man who met his modified deadline by the skin of his teeth.

So, needless to say, no sooner had I nodded off than the Air Canada flight attendant woke me up to find out what I wanted for breakfast.

I'm hoping a rum punch with dinner and the sound of the surf outside the window will allow me my first extended sleep for more than a week, thus enabling me to be coherent when I interview an organic farmer early tomorrow morning.

Two weeks on the couch with no deadlines. That's what, ten years on, I still want.
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