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Bwog will be taking it easy today in deference to Thanksgiving and hope you will be too. And as per our tradition, we’ve compiled a list of everything and everyone for which/whom we’re thankful.
People
Andrew Sarris
Lil Wayne
Michelle Obama
Alan Brinkley
Giambattista Vico
Andrew Revkin
Robby the Vending Machine
James Franco (and the hope of running into him at Dodge)
Eric Foner yelling passionately in lectures
The Terrible Twelves
Nate Silver: Ultimate nerd dreamboat
Bob Dylan
Obama
Josh Mathew
Male poets
Stravinsky
Jay Orenduff
John Kluge
Cute CAVA boys
Foodstuffs
Appletree’s new-ish salad bar
Farmers markets
Starbucks holiday cups
Turkey!
Pandoro
Columbia’s free food
Shake Shack
Westside Market
Diet Coke
Soy products
Trader Joe’s wine
Grapes
Our suite kitchen, especially the oven
A good knife
Burritos in Ferris Booth
Naan
$1.50 Nantucket Nectars in the Schermerhorn vending machine
The peanut butter m&ms in the Mudd vending machines
Westside hot soup
Josh Mathew’s red velvet cakes
Hidden stacks of napkins free for the taking at Ferris Booth
Vinegar-based condiments – there are so many! Barbeque sauce, tabasco, ketchup, mustard, etc. If it was not for vinegar then we would not have all this delicious stuff
Cruz de Malta Yerba Mate
The massive gyros at George’s Pizza on 181st street
Basement Pizza Coffee House
Morningside and Its Environs
Riverside Park
Tourists who photograph the campus squirrels
The after-midnight cashier at HamDel
The wiener dog that trotted into Schermerhorn the other day and down 2 flights of stairs
The guy in the SDA office who stacked a ton of Axe Chocolate temptation deodarant sample cans in front of us his door, which have found their way into my back pack at times
New bike lanes
The Egyptian guy who works the chicken & rice stand outside of Rite Aid on 110th and Broadway 24/7
Talkative cashiers at Duane Reade
The Barnard tunnel system
Woodbridge
Usually vigilant RAs
Having a single
Astoria
The courtyard at Union Theological Seminary
California for Thanksgiving
Venturing outside of Morningside Heights
The New Yorker
George Packer
Ryan Lizza
New Yorker’s Food Issue
New Yorker issues no longer devoted to the election
Culture Vulture
Pleasure reading
The New York Observer
“Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie”
Puppy Cam
39 more episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Football
Technologic
Gmail themes
My Blackberry
Synecdoche, New York
YouTube
Sony MDR v6’s
Learning how to use the stove
Robots
HopstopAcademia and Beyond
One less semester (almost) here
Extended deadlines
Chance to start fresh with new classes next semester
Finding other places to study than Butler
Having studied abroad
Columbia swim team
The fact I’m not graduating this year
My financial aid officer
My high school yearbook
Professors who give a shit
Professors that are writing letters for me and making some calls
Non-profit organizations that don’t send you patronizing rejection letters (This does not include Teach for America)
Having no classes on the 6th and 7th floors of Hamilton
IRWAG
The pronunciation of IRWAG
Professors using pop culture references
Universally Adored
My friends
Turning 21
People who are nice to interns
Roommates
Religious tolerance
America
My mom’s cooking
Life
Friends
Freedom
Brendan Ballou’s work in New Mexico
Lights at the ends of tunnels
The tunnels with lit ends
My mom
My suite mates who are always baking cookies
Dinosaurs
Fuzzy socks
Spontaneous lunch dates with friends you see too little
Postcards from strangers
Letters from friends studying abroad
Categorically Uncategorized
My fur-lined gloves
Grow-in-water lizard toys…as pets!
Bulky wool socks
Public records
Air travel
Bright winter days
Dogs that match their owners
Birds
Yoga class
Ears
— Bwog Staff & Friends
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@omg steen is so freaking cute and excellent
@maybe brendan ballou did something in new mexico as well–and we have yet to feel its repercussions…
@I love wiener..dogs The wiener dog that trotted into Schermerhorn the other day and down 2 flights of stairs ???
Does anyone have any pictures??
@LEON the little Dachshund is named Leon… he belongs to a Psych TA named Steen, who always brings him to class. The dog is about the cutest thing ever, and I have a picture but it has me in it and I’m a little embarrassed…
@CC '12 Thanks, BWOG. :)
We’re thankful for you too, or at least I am.
@aww this post makes me happy.
@claremont “The Barnard tunnel system”
THIS
@East Campus There are a few Barnard tunnel systems I’m thankful for.
@ttan Turkeys airlifted from Shanghai through Virginia to the godforsaken Chinese backwater I am in right now because SO HELP ME I will not miss Thanksgiving two years in a row.
@WTF has obama done for anyone to thank him for? Being born black and groing up a privelidged and spoiled life smoking pot and crack while his classmates studied and getting admitted to spoiled brat college’s because of the color of his skin and his exotic name.
@because no one else at Columbia in the 80s was smoking anything? Seriously?
@oh yeah cause growing up without a father, having your mother marry some random ass guy and move you to indonesia, being on foodstamps, and putting yourself through college is privileged.
gee, i’d hate to see the shit life you have if that’s privileged to you.
honestly, shut up.
@not new mexico brendan was in nevada
also, i’m thankful for exorcisms.
@wtf usually vigilant ra’s? wtf?
@hmm I think that was in response to the Exorcism. If not, fuck them. I hate party-related vigilant RAs – scum of the earth.
“1 less semester here” is a very convoluted way of not being thankful.
I’m thankful for the puppy cam, and for a pretty crazy semester! Obama-McCain here on 9/11, the spontaneous mob that formed after the Obama win, part of which flowed into Harlem, Cofer Black, Salman Rushdie, Evo Morales, and a few world leaders all here in the span of a few weeks, the endowment NOT actually having fallen, contrary to the Spec’s shitty reporting, the possibility the CC might actually get a Dean interested in interacting with students & not alums, etc etc
@doggie! there should have been an entire post dedicated to the schermerhorn dauchsand. greatest thing of my life.
@Anonymous shake shack…..by far the best thing to be thankful for!
@i love playing two hand touch
eating way too much
watching my team win
AND TWWWIIIINNNSSS
@hey, #6 eating with a plastic spoon a few feet away from a computer is nothing to feel bad about! totally legitimate way of existing.
@ehhh The foodstuffs are pretty pitiful. It sounds like the author eats most of her meals with a plastic spoon while sitting a few feet away from her computer. I feel bad for her.
@clarification This wasn’t compiled by one author; Bwog sent out an e-mail to its listserve asking everyone to contribute.
@i dont know anyone who is grateful for ferris burritos, but two thumbs up for the fresh fruit with chocolate!
@brendan ballou is the man.
@yo man... it’s thanksgiving, there’s an Arrested Development on, and the chances are good that we’re all going to get pie today. Let’s be cool in these comments. Josh Matthew = muscular and charming, and I know for a fact he wasn’t the one that put his name on that list. I did, and I’m his mother
@did josh mathew write this? shameless self-promotion on his part… TYPICAL.
@calm down There are people who write for bwog who are far bigger douches.
I actually enjoyed this post, which, sadly, is a rare occurrence these days.