I am a chair. I am a big, soft comfortable chair, fluffy and overstuffed like the ones that when you sit down in, they swallow you whole. And it did swallow me, which is how I became one with this chair.

But this isn't the only chair I have been today. Others were less fluffy, less comfortable, even hard plastic, yet still they proved to be all-consuming. I was even also part of a wall today. I was just leaning on the wall, and eventually it just drew me in, until I was part of the wall.

If you can follow this column so far, you know what it is like to have jet lag. And during the upcoming holidays, should you decide to take a jaunt to the other side of the world and back to visit relatives, this could be you.