I knew when I moved away that it’d be tough to get together very often… plane tickets for a weekend are a bit of a luxury and it’s a 9 hour drive each way. But there was fall break – oh yeah, our two schools don’t take fall break the same week. I did get up there in September for a nothing-but-fun trip (as opposed to August, which involved some work to get the rest of my stuff moved). But a weekend once a month isn’t exactly long enough when you’re used to spending 50 hours a week together. And October’s visit collapsed under two busy schedules, and now he’s dealing with some serious family crisis stuff. Sigh.
Just wish I could be there to help – someone to vent to, someone to relax with. Email and IM work but it’s not quite as spontaneous and open as saying it in person. So it really sucks that this particular crisis isn’t one I can help with at all at all at all. 
BTW, if anyone’s got tips on a reasonably successful way to reverse some of the symptoms of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), please let me know so I can pass it on? He could really use some ideas about now.
