The wash

Turns out, our brains store information in categories. It's true. I measured it in graduate school. For what it's worth, if you read the word "animal" you will be faster to recognize the word  "aardvark" than if you had read the word "vegetable. This organization by category helps us think. Trick is, the categories are subjective. Living in a foreign country impacts thinking, partly because the categories get rearranged.  Like the way we sort the wash. Here, it isn't by colors or whites or towels or delicates. Our choices include cotton, synthetic, or wool. We're fine with thinking about the laundry in this way but it isn't how our American brains do the sorting. Furthermore, although we have googled it, neither of us knows if we should choose the coat hanger or the shirt with the clock in the armpit for the drying cycle. Just constantly scratching our heads...