Situationally Induced Narcolepsy

We flew to London overnight, arriving yesterday morning at 6:15 AM London time (6 hours ahead of TX, 3 hours behind Doha). We figured out the whole London Underground thing, got to our hotel, took a 30 minute nap, and then went out into the crazy-in-a-different-way London world. I'll have stories and pictures about that later.

The interesting thing was that we were both so tired--combination jet lag, very little sleep on the flight, mental overload, and a long day of jolly adventures--that last night around 7 PM, we both developed a sudden onset of narcolepsy. Any place we would sit down outside of the cold (...70s in Doha...30s in London...good grief!), we would each suddenly fall asleep. In a shop, at a pub, on the tube (subway), sitting bolt upright, we would start to sway and fall asleep.

No communications last night because I'm not exactly sure how we--the two zombies from central Texas--even made it back home. I promise we'll share more pictures and stories soon, this evening if we can find a place to charge the laptop...

The Qatar Foundation has signs like this one posted in a number of places around Doha, but they are especially prominent on the campuses at Education City (where TAMU-Q is located). You can hear the QF encouraging or maybe even demanding this of the Qatar people, especially of the younger generations.