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Unknown places, time zone changes that affect my sleep,
which is not good, can be very, very bad.
An extremely unpleasant event took place on a work assignment
where I flew to the Midwest week after week and then
on to the East Coast and back to the West Coast
and so I was running on sleep deprivation.
One evening in a strange place, which is very difficult for me
to adjust to this day, at about two o'clock
in the morning I awoke to loud screaming voices in Vietnamese.
I didn't sleep any more that night.
It was just casual laborers who worked
at the hotel having an argument outside the window near my room.
But between that and the hot smell of the parking lot
that was the same material as the tarmac at the airports
in Vietnam, I simply had to go in
and excuse myself from my assignments.
And it unfortunately was not something my employer understood
at all.
I'm hoping things are little better
and people are a little better educated
and frankly the combination of the travel,
the sleep deprivation and the other things
that I should have sought and received accommodation
for as an American Disabilities Act accommodation,
which I later did and the company yielded
and life was a little better.
It was another learning experience.