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By 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.
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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
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@i second america, so happy to be here
@thanks America
@more thanks the hot chocolate in the sipa building
mozzarella fries @ toms
the columbia students vs minutemen extravaganza
history teaching assistants
not finding my writing in digitalia columbiana
the songs employees @ coldstone sing when tipped
darleny cepin’s e-mails
@thankful for typing the wrong color in the color box just to piss off the Error Log Gods.
@thankful for penis pumps
dead babies
dead baby jokes
(yes, the three ARE related)
@wow wo. ow. wow.
@thank you the subway running all night
broadway shakes
the way the air smells at 3 am
secret sources
my mom when she’s sober
free pizza (free everything)
the booksellers on broadway
leather chairs in lerner
controversy
e-mail
warm beds
catching up
chinatown
motivation
law & order reruns
@your mama and anal retentive readers of bwog :)
@thankful still for everything i have yet to taste.
@BoFN Y’all are a bunch of nucking ferds…
@Thankful for... MacBooks with Intel processors
free New York Times in Lerner
the media who brought us a blow-by-blow of TomKat’s wedding
Anderson Cooper
security guards who record their own music
Mark Chatoor, the best admin ever
Marlboro Lights
family and friends
pot delivery services
Mark Foley
@ANONYMOUS sam ryan
@tuscan? no. it’s tuscon.
@nope.. it’s either tuscany or tucson, but it’s not tuscon and not tuscan either.
@Bwog Fixed Tuscon!
Bwog Staff
@err... you changed it, but you didn’t *fix* it.. the city in arizon is tuCson, not tuScon, and the province in italy is tuscanY, not tuscan. i don’t know which you meant, but google doesn’t know where tuscon is, and i don’t either.
@Anonymous Facebook, Bwog, Youtube and B@B for been my way of procastinating!
@exie wandering the city
going to the movies
enormous bookstores
the weekend comics
christmas trees
seeing family
comfy slippers
winter pajamas
this entire year
@thankful for visiting a friend
graduation
new food
new friends
not talking
heat, water, and gravity
public radio
@thanks dating
comfortable socks/ sweaters/ hats
going home and not having to do dishes
@Thanks for what not to Wear marathons
my own bathroom
tivo
russian novels
procrastinationat home and at school
christmas season in NYC
tablet pcs
@thank you yes! for anticipation,
the other person who is thankful for anticipation
my suitemates
those chilly nights in the city when it’s absolutely quiet
street vendors
professors who write long comments
british accents
wine
passports
and lastly, im thankful for bwog!
@thanks! chris kulawik
avi zenilman
bill o’reilly
youtube.com
@merci SIPA vending machines
@thankful for being single,
singularity,
anticipation.
@more thanks Aaron Sorkin
bicycles
Frederick Law Olmsted
Chinatown buses
the New Yorker
anthropomorphizing stuffed creatures
Urban Studies majors
campus newspapers
earmuffs
morning breath
@mat ack and this!
@Columbian my boyfriend
chocolate
cute animals
easy mac
single rooms
new york
@i have a cold doesnt hungarian have baklava?
@baklava hungarian + strokos both do
@giving thanks Democratic sweeps
septa
falling acorns with humorous trajectories
marina abramovic
my suitemates
@mat ooh this too!
@baklava strokos
@thankful for the hot men in sipa
rosalind krauss
avery
how empty EC is during thanksgiving
frequent flyer miles
@mat I bet I know who this is!
@113th Tom’s early morning breakfast prices and toasted corn muffin
The steps
All the campus publications
One or two professors
Symposium salad and sangria
Friends not from high school or Columbia
The roasted nuts carts
The one train
Ollie’s
Shortline bus from Port Authority to Cornell.
@thankful hot apple cider
clean dorm room
bronx target
good food
tour guiding
good friends
being in love
@corny but necessary not needing pets because you live with male engineers and they’re just as adorable AND destructive as 5 month old puppies.
fridays off.
the 2/3 running express.
stealing napkin holders from hewitt.
@hungry for more I am actually wondering where the 4 baklava options are…
@X.J. I know a few:
The obvious one is Casbah Rouge on 110th and Broadway. There’s also Symposium on 113th between Amsterdam and B’Way, and Che Bella Pizza on Amsterdam across the street from Mudd. Maybe the fourth one is Amir’s?
@John Ooh, so there are more than four! Yes, Amir’s. Also, there’s a place right around the corner from Teacher’s College, on Broadway.
@shira my suitemates becky and will, who woke up at 5am this morning to say goodbye, woke ME up, and ensured that I did not sleep through my flight. lots of other things, too.
@adding more dinner with friends
cancelled classes
cozy dorm rooms
Starbucks coffee
rene descartes
@and finally, love.
@and the colbert report
cranberry sauce from a can, wit ridges
ginger snaps
graduation
hot sidewalk coffee
cheese
edward said
firefox
people who smoke outside butler
sarcasm
@more! when it’s raining – the raised sections of brick on college walk
tour groups
Butler’s French Vanilla roast
text messages
when people actually talk to each other in the Hamilton elevator
paper extensions
getting packages
miso soup
@boredomred anonymity everywhere
heated nights
the security guard @ butler who looks and smiles at you
adjustable heaters in the library
cute freshmen
headphones spilling music
pinot noir
kurt tucholsky and sebastian haffner
timberland socks
silicon based lube
equinox mouthwash
the people who make music below Times Square
@mm mm good so does this mean other people find jay disturbingly attractive? or just helpful and charming
@i before e except after c
or when sounding like a
as in neighbor or way
or in caffeine
or in atheist
@Bwog Atheist fixed! Thanks.
-Bwog
@attn or, to be less much less clever but get you to do it: caffEIne.
@swr my one good eye
jokingly describing this color in one lowercase word, having to constrain my cleverness the second try
the hold steady
trains
sachems (omg!)
berlin
days when final draft doesn’t crash
bittorrent
american network tv
camel lights
jurassic park pinball
@Lydia oh SNAP
@tmw election day weekend
24-hour mac store
zach v.s.
attractive faculty members
free museum admission with cu id
lit trees on college walk
the times magazine
french-speaking security guards
a good night’s sleep
the blue and white’s office… oh, wait
@howie 109 Deli
Jim Jones
@BCC Barnard students for pulling down the curve
@Anonymous Wilma
canceled classes
empty seats in Butler
macaroni night at John Jay
free condoms
Borat
Nobel prizes
TVs in JJ’s place
bored@