Traveler Somehow Spends First Thursday of 2024 in Both Manila and New York City

Yesterday was thirty-seven hours long, by my count, but I’m awfully jet-lagged and probably shouldn’t trust my own math. All I know is that it was Thursday forever, and forever included a fourteen-hour flight around the world, a full day in the pool at our hotel in the Philippines, a robust breakfast with coconuts, and a long wait for our bags in JFK. When we got off the plane, I panicked about not having written a Daily Kina, but then realized it was still Thursday and that I had managed to elude my morning obligation by chasing night in an airplane. If you want a taste of that missing day, you can always go back to the edition I wrote for the day at the beginning of our trip that technically never existed.

Glad I’m writing this now, because I can literally feel my brain shutting down.

dad

p.s. Because my current newsletter provider has a real soft spot for letting just about any horrifying bigot monetize on their platform, I am going to move this newsletter to a different platform (Buttondown, if you’re curious). Jet lag notwithstanding, that will be a pretty seamless affair, but if you do not receive a newsletter for a few days, feel free to shoot me a note and I’ll fix it.