notes from the overground

being on a long haul flight between multiple time zones feels a lot like being a zoo animal, where you are cramped into tiny spaces and sleep out of boredom. Woken by your keepers for food. you're not hungry because you don't know what time of day it is anymore and haven't even had any opportunity to burn off the last meal, but you eat because the food tray is plopped down. you assume that the dieticians have already figured out what is best and in what portions.