Long distance relationships will make you do all sorts of silly things. Search for the best deals on bus tickets for hours on end, get your legs waxed despite having never done that in the nearly 7 years you've been with someone, buy fancy new underwear, etc. All those things are, legitimately, pretty silly. But there are other things that seem silly but can prove to be incredibly important.
One of those things that TJ and I have discovered is watching TV shows over the phone with each other. Namely, Archer. Archer is an animated series on FX, and it's fantastic. It's created by some of the minds behind another mutual favorite of ours, Frisky Dingo, a 2-season series that ran on Adult Swim about a millionaire asshole playboy and an extra-terrestrial villain named Killface who runs his diabolical plan like a corporation - POs included. You can see why we were such fans. Archer is about a millionaire playboy spy and his spy agency, which happens to be owned and operated by his highly dysfunctional mother (voiced and inspired by Jessica Walter, aka Lucille Bluth).
Anyways, we watch Archer together. On the phone. We literally sit on the phone, myself watching my DVR, TJ watching on iTunes and giggle at a show. Nothing further. Pretty silly, eh? Yes and no. Certainly, it's rather silly to watch a show over the phone. What isn't silly is how much closer it makes me feel to him. We get to watch one of our favorite things and laugh together and discuss the finer points of the episode. And for that half hour, it's like he's sitting next to me instead of a few hundred miles away.
I can't speak for him, but I think he feels the same. He gets a little antsy if we haven't watched that week's episode by Sunday. We're trying to find other ways to share experiences while away. Online gaming has been attempted once, and will be further advanced when Portal 2 comes out. I think I'd like to attempt Skype cooking too. We'll see.
I have confidence we'll find lots more silly things soon.
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