Snow, stuffing, and chocolate chip pancakes

I am looking forward to the promised snow tomorrow! Can there be anything more exciting than snow in Texas? No. End of question. We only get snow every other year, and normally on spring holidays like Valentine's Day and Easter (which doesn't even make sense.) But now it's the Christmas season! I know it's only December 3rd, but it's full scale Christmas in my heart. I just had the most wonderful brunch in Collins this morning. We get there right before the change for lunch, so I got a chocolate chip pancake, and then stuffing and sweet potatoes only half an hour later. I know it's kind of cheating to just wait it out and get two meals, but it's such a delightful time to get to just eat and talk for an hour and a half. It was our last brunch together. :'( But there will be other brunches and lunches and great big suppers.

Eating together is just a wonderful way to be together.

But, weird thought. If I were an alien or a robot that didn't eat or excrete anything, which activity would I find more disgusting? Because eating to an outsider would seem pretty darn disgusting. Remember in the Bicentennial Man (the book by Isaac Asimov, not the movie) when Andrew Martin gets surgery just so he can eat? It seems totally pointless, because he doesn't need the nutrients. Yet, that act of partaking of the same food made him feel like he was apart of society. In that pivotal moment when he takes a bite from an apple (I might be mixing up Asimov stories), everyone seems to believe that he is human. Maybe it's the act of taking something in common into your body. It's unifying. We put the same things in our mouths, therefore, we are becoming more the same. Not in a sexual way. Just in a nutritious way. And when our bellies are full, there seems to be nothing of want in the world, or at least in our tiny microcosm. We can just discuss whatever without ever having to move. Now that we've taken some of the same things into our body, our common tie lets us move on to other topics of great or little importance.

Which reminds me, I need to study for musicianship. Have a lovely day, interblag!