Coping with jet-lag is a story of your life, if you are a frequent traveler. But this week, I'm suffering from what you might call virtual jet-lag.
Our Project-ALPHA collaboration is having a workshop this week at CERN in Geneva. I could not go to Geneva this time because of my work for the TWIST experiment at TRIUMF in Vancouver. Hence I am participating in the ALPHA meetings via Internet conference. Meetings start at 9:00 a.m. Central European Time. That is midnight in Vancouver. It goes until 7 p.m. in Geneva, which is 10 a.m. Vancouver time. Hence my jet-lag.
Our meetings get pretty heated even over the Internet. In presenting my point view, I could end up speaking rather loudly at my microphone more than once in the middle of (Vancouver's) night. In any case, I find it hard to speak quietly when I'm talking to people across the ocean. Not that louder voice would reach longer distance. Although our workshop has been very interesting, for the sake of my jet-lag, I'm glad the it only lasts one more day. Perhaps so are my house mates.
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