After taking a short vacation to visit family in Hawaii and Japan, I flew back to Chicago and jumped right back into the gig life. I had three ambient contortion gigs in a row literally 2 days after I flew back into town, and my body and brain felt like TOAST- flying from Chicago's time zone to Hawaii's time zone to Japan's time zone, back to Hawaii's time zone, and then flying back to Chicago's time zone all in the span of 7 days was complete torture for my body, yikes. But