Old and New Normals

In the past two days, I've had multiple professors say, "I bet you can't even remember what it was like not to be in law school." And how right they are. Even though this is only my fourth week of law school, it feels like I've been doing the hours upon hours of reading a day and attending these classes for much longer. Likewise, I feel like I've been in a long distance relationship for a long time as well. I guess I would say that law school studying and long distance relationships have become the new normal in my life.

So it was nice to break out of the bubble of my new normal, for at least a weekend. Putting my books aside, I hopped on a plane on Friday morning to visit Alex in Syracuse. I can't even describe how great it was to see him after almost two months. While we talk daily, it was just so much better to hang out with him for the weekend. We toured Syracuse's beautiful campus, got me a bright orange Syracuse tshirt, went to the heartbreaking but very exciting football game, hung out in downtown, watched a lot more football, and ate at "Syracuse's best".

The whole experience was surreal, but of course in a good way. It felt like we had never been apart and we were doing the same old things that we used to do. It was like were were taking the old normal and just moving it to a new place. His RA dorm room has been replaced by a much bigger ARD apartment, we got decked out in orange instead of blue, and hung at a an irish pub instead of Brew Co. I can't wait until he comes to DC (which may be in as few as 2-3 weeks!) so we get to hang out again in yet another new city.