Wednesday, January 31, 2007
What's for breakfast?
I'm writing to you from Honolulu, the best work trip I will ever, ever take. I just arrived though, so right now I'm exhausted. I just finished my dinner, while most of you on the East Coast are slumbering. When you all are up and blogging about lunch, I'll be deciding on breakfast. I don't know which end is up . . . those of you who travel to far flung locales often (I'm looking at you, Diz), how do you deal with the time changes and your meal schedules? I think we've covered this before (I recall "travel eats" posts), but please forgive me. I'm having a little trouble both thinking and writing. So, please offer suggestions for what folks in other time zones should have for breakfast/dinner/midnight snack and tell the world WFL!
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Mahalo GG! Go with the locals and get some spam and sticky rice...it's the McSpam value meal #4 at good ol' McD's.
Last (and first and only) time I was in Hawaii I was so excited I couldn't sleep. They were doing movies on the beach that night too so I knew I couldn't go to bed and pass up the opportunity to catch a flick on Waikiki beach. A friendly couple took me in and they gave me a beach chair and a can of pepsi. It was so sad, the man said "Here you can use this chair, it's for my grandson but he never shows up". *sigh*
LadyA, don't mess with traveling people ... just the time change alone could leave someone traveling in tears. You see the frequent traveling far-afield leaves one just bone-tired and raw after the initial excitement wears off.
Now, GG, eat lightly. So sushi and soda water will set you up nicely. Avoid anything that could give you heartburn because at this point anything will. I don't know how you are built but I know I can't go to sleep after a big meal very easily.
Second tip, keep eating. Try to snack at least at their meal times if not getting a total meal. This helps your body rhythm get in tune with everyone else.
Third tip, not having to do with eating so much as schedule. Don't nap ... just don't do it. Stay up until they do and force yourself awake at an early time just before you normally would.
4th, exercise, preferably in the morning. Just a little jog or a walk or some swimming or even weights.
5th and final, avoid the local water. Stick to bottled. Even the slightest change in stomach flora will cause you problems. This even comes from the air. So take it easy on your tummy because it will have to acclimate.
I'm having a big-ass burger today in the tunnels. I think I'll go to Beck's Prime.
GG we will need a breakdown of all your meals. And perfect timing since the Top Chef finale from Hawaii is tonight...
i suggest pina coladas and macadamian nuts. The coffee is good too. I think with those three staples you should be in good shape.
i'm working from home today so (because i can) i am having lunch number 1. Leftover General Tsao chicken.
yay working from home.
Diz sometimes you make no sense...
My first significant travel with time change came when I studied in England in college. I arrived in country around 10AM, took a two-hour train ride, registered at my university, checked in to my dorm, and met two of my four flatmates before 3PM. I then convinced one of them to take me grocery shopping and then drinking with his friends. I played my first 18 holes of Pub Golf on 50p pints of Carling, threw up all over my shirt, the bar, the bathroom, and a couple of other patrons before being gingerly escorted home by my recently-introduced flatmate. I woke up at 2PM the next day with vomit on my pillow.
And, I was straight up on the new schedule.
In other words, I have no recommendations, GG. But, do tell.
For me, I think I'm having a heaping helping of bullshit and heartburn for lunch. Some days it's just not worth coming to work.
Wow. Anonymity violation on Blogger there! Good thing I think I fixed it.
Stupid migrating accounts...
LadyA, I know. Basically, don't tell traveling people sad stories or get mad at them when they are traveling ... it just isn't fair.
Agh. I don't know what happened to my last comment. Grrrr.
GG - I have no suggestions on the food front, but I wholeheartedly agree with the 'stay up late' philosophy. Which is easier to do going west than coming east. Use melatonin, too. That shit's great.
WFL is the last piece of leftover pizza (eggplant & tomato! Yum!) & some leftover gumbo from when I thought I was getting sick. If it weren't so cold outside, though, I would probably get something more fun. I've been craving fried chicken lately. Oink.
the worst time change i have ever experienced was ny to cali, so i dont have much experience in this problem. i ate cereal for breakfast. don't know whats for lunch, except that there will be some leftover mashed potatoes.
Hey, M, what's with the new avatar? It looks like Vanilla Ice in his latest incarnation as punker.
like the iceman, but hotter.
GG, I recently was in a time zone that was 7 hours ahead of local DC time. That made me REALLY sleepy at about 5pm. I guess you're in the other direction, but the key is to fight off sleep and make it to a reasonable bed time.
The first night I had a nice dinner with beer, I was still excited.
The next night when I felt myself crashing, I had some coffee drinks and a salad, then switched to alcohol about 8pm, which knocked me out by 10pm. ANd then I was on the local time
HT is lunching at a press event today and writes: "Turkey, lettuce, tomato with mayo and yellow mustard on whole grain. Pasta salad and fruit salad on the side..."
And then she praised Jesus.
Beef and barley soup.
Quarter Pounder with cheese (no pickle, no mustard), large McFry, Dr. Pepper to drink.
Whilst at lunch, I also figured out that the secret to job satisfaction can be captured in two words: emotional detachment.
Thanks for the tips guys. I went to bed last night at 9:30 local time and slept until 7. I'm glad I set my alarm b/c I totally could have slept forever. Hopefully my body clock is resetting. I always have a much easier time going east than west, so I still feel a little out of it. For breakfast, I had iced coffee and a bagel. Lady A--I'm meeting my co-workers for a breakfast meeting tomorrow, but will try the McSpam value meal Friday. I actually have to do some work this morning, which kinda sucks, but the balcony in my hotel room is sooooo much better than my cubicle. Hopefully, I'll wrap things up this morning so I can have a pina colada or mai tai at lunch!
And let me add that I hate this new blogger/migrating thing (I don't know what's up w/ all the bold/giant script at the bottom of the post--sorry!)
Oh! And for dinner last night I had fried noodles. It hit the spot, and, while not exactly local was at least a little exotic. And no heartburn, Diz!
I had a tomato, okra, corn and onion soup concotion for lunch.
Better than it sounds.
Oh, GG, I kind of liked the font - like cascading importance.
I just had my leftover gumbo. I'm disappointed. I think someone went in before me & picked out all the shrimp. It was very tomatoey - almost too tomatoey. I think all that acid is going to be giving me heartburn later. Sigh, I'm so bored. I want to leave. Sigh!
Diz sounds like my crotchety old grandmother with all of his warnings about heartburn and don't drink the water - it's Hawaii - the water is fine! Jeez...
GG, having been in your exact shoes (okay, down the beach a smidge) not so long ago, obviously the staying up thing is key. What threw me though was that I suddenly became an "early to rise" person, so I found myself wide awake at 6am. By 10, I was hungry, and since I don't normally eat breakfast, and knew that I had lunch plans, I snacked on fruit and nuts and caffeinated beverages until lunch time.
Lunch today was as Jo so graciously reported.
Ah, the early riser syndrome. When I came back from six months in England, I found myself waking up at 630-700AM for a week or two. The Other Plate said, "wow, I'm glad to see you picked up some good habits in England."
I replied, "Are you kidding, ma? I would give anything to be able to sleep. This is jet lag."
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