It's not getting any easier
I dreamed about it last night - my subconscious telling me what my conscious mind already knows: I miss Heather terribly. This will be the longest time we've been separated so far, from mid August through American Thanksgiving most likely. Before this 5 weeks was the max. Last night I had a dream where I got to drive up to see her, but somewhere in northern Washington I got hungry for dinner and logically, the only option was to turn around and go back to Salem. I couldn't go up again that day (too late) and it was only a 3-day weekend, so going up the next day would have yielded mere hours of time together before I had to head back. It was bad enough it woke me up. I don't remember the other dreams in detail, but I do remember waking up 3 or 4 more times that night after dreams of trying to reach her and failing, missing her terribly. This sucks.