holidays

as the holidays approach I realize that I havent been around the states for a a festive season for a long time. I am really lucky with the prospects for this year. I get to spend thanksgiving with my rents and grandmother in South Carolina(i know but one cant have it all) and the best part is i get to help make the turkey dinner. It will be my mother and I just like when I was a kid except this time I will get to have some wine while preparing and not have to sneak off to get intoxicated. I am actually looking forward to the turkey even though I havent been eating meat for the last 5 months. I figured that if I am going to eat one meal with meat it would be one that tastes the same as it did half my life ago when i last had it. I hope it is as good as I remember and not just nostalgia skewing the memories. Then it is to the other holiday. Xmas. And again i am in luck. I get a few days off from school so I will have time to spend Xmas with my favorite company. ME. I get to spend the entire vacation reading and lounging and generally doing whatever I want. Its perfect really. No one to entertain, no one to be entertained by. I couldnt have planned it better. Durham is amazing still, I have a few bars that i frequent, I have met lots of interesting people and I like the commute to work and downtown. 3 miles on a bike trail is ideal. Its getting colder and the mornings there is frost on the grass when I leave, makes me so happy to be on a bike where i can look at it and be awed.