time gaps

Two years of long distance has thus far, consisted of much rummaging around plans to get ourselves to the same city, along with numerous fights and rough patches in between late work nights and stressful finals weeks. Still, largely little reason to complain thanks to a consultant boyfriend who works in an industry where weekly travel is the norm and not the exception.

It’s been interesting to discover over the past two weeks that hes been in Hong Kong on a new project (to stay for 6 more) that hardest thing by far has been not being in the same time zone. The 13 hour time difference makes it so theres never really a time when we’re both free to talk - its class time during bed time or bed time during rush off to a three hour meeting time. That hes eating breakfast when I’m eating dinner should be not difficult to conceive mentally, but it completely throws me off and causes a lot of hating on my missed call list and my over-used anytime minutes. Thank goodness for google voice and video chat. Will be relieved come April when schedules are realigned, and when this thesis I’m currently avoiding working on will be also be done. Til then, must tell myself to carry on and mind the (time) gap.