Designer bottles and other perplexes

from jon carroll.

We sat in silence again. It's interesting being married; you've told each other all your stories, and you don't want to do relationship processing all the time, so you get going on something you know nothing about, like industrial design. You make up theories and then forget what they were. Meanwhile, you develop a kind of shorthand intimacy, so a meandering conversation about beverage bottles is actually sort of romantic.

this is frighteningly true. well, so far. i expect it to become both more frightening and more true as applied to my life.