Though in reality my internal clock is set a few hours ahead. Was awake for something like 24 hours, about 14 or 15 of which were spent on a plane. Then I was home and went almost straight to bed, after hugging my brother of course. Now it's all of three hours and a half later, 4:40 am, and I'm dead tired but wide awake. I'm lucky I was a late riser in Tokyo or I probably wouldn't have gotten that much.
The flights went without problems of any kind, so I'm grateful for that much at least. And since I'm whining I might as well mention that one of the last things I did in Japan was catch a cold.
So, I'm home. The water tastes better here than it did anywhere in Japan. I could crawl in under my thick down comforter last night without dying from the heat or sweating myself to dehydration because of the humidity. My room feels ridiculously big now, I mean there are places where I can't reach the wall in any direction (probably at least half the floor actually). Ah, and then there's that feeling of coming home. I think the best description of it is in a few lines of a song by Lars Winnerbäck:
"att komma hem är som att resa i tiden
du känner samma känslor igen
den där kvalmiga, väntande friden
och samma kärlek och vemod igen"
Most, if not all of you who read this don't know Swedish, so I'll try to translate it (know that some nuance may get lost in translation, especially the word stifling is not a very good translation of kvalmig but it's the best I've got at... now five am):
"To come home is like travelling in time
you feel the same emotions again
that stifling, waiting peace
and the same love and sadness again"
There was a big thunderstorm last night, just starting when I landed and really hitting a crescendo when we were about half way home (dad came to pick me and Markus up). I'm just glad I wasn't driving. I think I'm going to ask one of my brothers or parents to drive me to some empty parking lot and let me get used to driving again for 15 minutes or so before I'm confident enough to risk going out on the road again. Cars are back to driving on the right. Even though I haven't actually been driving on the left, that's where I'm used to seeing them now.
I'm going to try for another couple of hours of sleep.
Listening to: Clocks that surprisingly enough haven't run out of battery, it seems like such a long time and here they've just been ticking off the seconds.
Feeling: A little dizzy now.