One doesn't drink coffee in the
morning because one is
thirsty, or because it provides
nutritional value, or because one
enjoys it, or because one is
hooked. Rather it is a chance to
revel in life--to enjoy its
dark and
bitter waters, the
acidic aftertaste. Then, and only then, you know that your day couldn't possibly be that bad and you gain in the
strength to go on.... One more
step.... One more day of
tedium.
And it helps to focus for some reason. I find I think twice as fast and twice as focused after a good meal and a couple of cups of coffee. If you skip the meal, then you just get a super caffeine high which lasts some 15 minutes and then you burn out. But whatever.
So there is a balance involved in drinking coffee. A balance of solid and liquid. Of drink and eat. Like the natural flows of the universe.
There is a certain macho factor too. Like when I'm working, I don't want a mamby-pamby cup of Starbucks or Green Mountain coffee! I want a cup of coffee made from dirt. I want to put my spoon in my coffee and have full confidence that it will stand up in the coffee and not touch any of the sides. The coffee should be either scalding hot, or arctic cold. It should be black as night, bitter, and heavily acidic. You should be able to use the same cup of coffee that you would normally drink in the morning to take the rust off your car.