Sunday, October 2, 2011

On Greensburg

A week ago, I got to be in Greensburg, PA and finally spend some quality time with my girlfriend, Allison.  She moved out to Greensburg toward the beginning of August, and although when I moved out to Madison, we picked her up and she helped me move in, We were really only together for around twelve hours, so it was the first time in over six weeks since we  had seen each other.  And I know that there are people in long distance relationships or in the military who go for months or longer without being together, but when we had been used to seeing each other about once a week over the summer and pretty much daily during our last semester of college, the transition was tough, and we were both very glad to spend some time together.
Allison showed me around Greensburg, we went to an art museum, we cooked together, watched Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh (instead of just texting each other about the game, like we usually do),  and we rescued my phone, which I had left on board a megabus in downtown Pittsburgh.  These were all wonderful things to share, but some of the best parts of the trip were the little "normal" things.  I had some homework to finish up for classes, so I worked on that, while she sat beside me and read.  We scanned the channels looking for Saturday morning cartoons.  While watching a movie, I could put my arm around her.  The little things of just being together were what made the trip so worthwhile.