15 - Short & Sweet

    "My life is far too short to read this tedious bullshit you send,"
she said unsympathetically.  "I don't care if most it is true.  It's too
wordy. You say the same thing time after time.  I'm not saying that it's
bad, but come on!"
    She was beautiful, intelligent, and a writer far beyond my talents.
She was also completely uninterested in me.  That always sent the
machines in my head into overdrive.
    "You wanted my opinion I gave you my opinion."  I always asked for
her opinion when I needed a reality check.  It rarely ever bounced.
Mine usually tapped the clouds twice and then skimmed across the ocean.
    "This is why I love you," I thought out loud, " not in the biblical
sense, but in that let's-get-naked-by
the-fireplace-and-stare-into-each-others-eyes kind of way."  She wasn't
amused.  I like that too.
    "Did I mention that you're an asshole?"  She said with a hint of a
smile.
    "Yeah, about 35 times.  Look just for you I'll keep the next few
entries short and sweet."
    "I'll believe it when I see it."