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This week I am in Los Angeles on a business trip and I think I made a grave mistake in making my travel plans. In order to coincide with my coworker to arrive and leave at nearly the same time, I got up this morning at 3:30 AM EST and arrived at LAX at 10 AM PST. I will then leave on Friday morning and get home Friday night.

It’s almost 4 PM here now and I am absolutely exhausted. I just am unable to function when I have to wake up early. I even tried going to sleep early last night, but of course that didn’t work. I think next time I will shift my travel window, even thought it won’t perfectly match up with my coworker, so that I arrive a day early and leave after our last meeting. That way I will take a later flight coming here, and I’ll take the redeye going home.

Something that also doesn’t help is that I can’t sleep in the middle of the day. So waking up, going through the airport shuffle, then going to sleep on the plane is simply not an option. I’m wide awake at that point. The redeye might work better because I’ll be tired from the day of work and potentially able to sleep. Who knows.

Anybody else out there have these problems?