turkeyBy now, you’re probably on your way to Tucson or Trenton, Tuscaloosa or Taiwan. Bwog is also busy this Thanksgiving, eating turkey and kvetching. So if you don’t see so much activity on the site over the next few days, that’s why.

But before we set off, we bring you a list of things we are thankful for this year, culled from Bwog staffers near and far. So, God bless us! Every one! Unless you’re an atheist, in which case, we wish you a completely Godless Thanksgiving.

Flex

Nice Asian man at Pinnacle who doesn’t sleep.

Pinnacle coffee. (extra milk and sugar)

Ham Del

second winds

The two days a week when the EC soda machines actually have soda

Lexis-Nexis

Free delivery

Four options for baklava within eight blocks

Cheap multipurpose fabric worn by Xavier

Gelatinous fruit slices

Extra buttons on the inside of coats

twinkle lights

Jay Orenduff

when it rains, Butler scaffolding

children on campus, playing hide-and-seek

chit-chatter in Watson library

Miss Dee, who I meet while crossing the street in front of IAB, a tiny old woman wearing oversized sunglasses and tomato-red lipstick, who says, “Remember me.”

Kent’s big windows

Jhumpa Lahiri

GS students

That second button on the inside of your pants

Commuter flights

Lerner sandwich guy

running into people in the library

Amtrak’s improbable continuing survival

warm laundry

YouTube.

Dostoevsky.

Caffiene.

Electric tea kettles.

Stealing from John Jay.

Getting the arc strider at Dodge (suck it, losers, suck it!).

Watching the sun rise while finishing a paper

Free leftovers at the desk in Lerner

Farmers market apples

Street fair $1 Thai food

Crazy security guards who just laugh at you when they realize you aren’t sober

Suitemates who you can shamelessly ask to hand you toilet paper when your stall is out

liberal internationalism

website redesigns

copy-editors

bike lanes

network printers that work

the barnard tunnel system

office hours

the custodians

a prompt express train

wireless wireless wireless

free refills

CULPA

g-chat

sunil gulati

john jay soft-serve

suitemates that sing jon bon jovi in a falsetto every morning at 6:00

tunnels

the distant shore of new jersey