I remember reading this one so many times that the ink (I had a particularly bad printing, I think) actually stopped rubbing off on my hands. I had some of the same dissatisfaction with Fletcher being accepted and then that's that, done, but the way jump is described as muting emotional reactions - in your mind it's only been a few hours since an argument, but to your body it's been weeks and the physical effects of being angry are long-gone - makes that make more sense? It takes conscious effort to hang on to resentment or even homesickness.