Taxi to the airport arrives in one hour. Local time: 3:49 a.m. I woke up this morning: 9 a.m. I went to sleep last night: I don’t know a.m. Three a.m.? Late a.m. Time until my 10-hour flight to Chicago departs: eight hours. Amount of time I must carry on awake, functional, mostly living: eight hours. Amount of time I’m capable of carrying on this way: maybe 20 minutes. It’s going to be a long, long long journey home.
