I had gone to bed shortly thereafter. I try to go to bed early the night before a Sydney trip, so I can get up early and then take a nap in the afternoon before my show time. It’s a fifteen-hour flight, and we don’t push back from the gate until 11 P.M. If you’re not rested when you get to SFO for briefing, you won’t get another shot at rest until you get to Sydney. We get a break on the flight, of course, but only for a few hours, and between breaks, it’s a challenge to stay awake in an airplane full of snoozing passengers. Loving coffee like I do, I nevertheless have a definite threshold when it comes to the swill we brew on the plane, and that toothpick eyelid support we all learned from Tom and Jerry cartoons doesn’t work as well as you might think.
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