We love the Gray Lady. Every so often we read an article that so thoroughly blows our mind that we just have to read it again and again, wondering where we went wrong and they went so right. Our weekend of mind expansion carried straight on 'til sunrise with this article on, gasp, people who live together. Five kids met on Craigslist and moved in together. They share rent and sometimes food. And sometimes drinks because if there's one thing the Real World in all its fraught glory has taught us, it's that roommates who drink together probably sleep together. And if awkward boning can't make for an awesome living situation, we just don't know what can.

One recent stormy evening after work, Mr. Santangelo had designed something icy and aromatic made from Ms. Vigneault's Absolut Apeach and Absolut Vanilia vodka, fresh ginger, lime juice, coriander and brown sugar. The roommates drank his "bespoke cocktail," as he put it, or Diet Cokes, or ice water, according to preference, and teased out the details of their half-year union.

Drink together... :

Mr. Masselink and Ms. Vigneault, by contrast, were queasy with nervousness.

All. Right.