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Bwog Requests

For those of you who celebrate Christmas and for those of you who just like asking for stuff, here's what BwGossipers want for the holidays, material and otherwise. Is anyone giftup there listening?


a time machine
Pinkberry for life
the secession of New York City
dinner with Katherine Boo
a bean bag chair
more presents under my fb christmas tree
Noah Feldman's babies
a sewing machine and the time to use it
Matilda's powers (for cooking, cleaning, mischief)
a massage
the end of the WGA strike
An internship at Entertainment Weekly Snow
A spot in Karl Kroeber's Children's Literature lecture
Dinner at Masa, paid for by someone else
A racing bike (pink touches, with full winter outfit to go with it)
More humidity in the city
A fully stocked professional kitchen
Friends in high places
The boy
A beat-up turn of the century house
Six consecutive hours of free time
A working command of Portuguese
Fresh rhubarb
A new bike
a spirited (but not necessarily talented) kindergarten class to sing me "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants
A not-so-shitty fake ID
Magnetic fields tickets
A paying journalism internship (hah!)
The end of the WGA strike
Functioning wifi
The following 33 1/3rds: Pet Sounds, Loveless, Trout Mask Replica, Another Green World
Pastrami Supreme
cat A Crack Deli giftcard
Swipe access to JTS/Barnard (emphasis on the former)
Judge, deluxe, with curly fries
NFL Sunday ticket
The secession of Staten Island
The spontaneous smiting (perhaps by lightning?) of Mike Huckabee
Love
A massive blizzard (but not so massive my sister's flight gets diverted)
A snowmobile to rock said blizzard
Provisions
A cozy fire
Houseguests who bring fancy cheese
A computer, the battery of which lasts more than ten minutes
A dog, which does not pee itself all the time
A good, short book or two
A pair of jeans that fits when purchased
A replacement camera, computer cord
Assurance I won't perish on a mountain this break
Unlimited well-bound notebooks
A thick Oriental dorm-room rug, the Orientaler the better
Some plants
Fruitcake
a personal library
Jeanette Winterson's babies
fluency
to travel the world without ever taking a plane
a really sweet bike (who doesn't want a new bike?)
Johnnie Walker Blue Label
A nice apartment so I can get the fuck outta Schapiro (bet you WIEN residents feel the same)
The conviction of Sean Taylor's killers
Some money for ABC so everybody can be happy.
My dog to be alive
a butler exodus
to fall asleep on the beach
la cerveza de costa rica: imperial
a giant sea turtle
Golden Gate Park
a scotch and soda with Woody Allen
the $2000 truffle from Cirque
Domenico Demarco to not die so he can come make pizza for me in CA at my house's wood fired pizza oven
table for two with Lauren Collins
elvesHarvard's financial aid system
A 2nd bout with Kaavya Viswanathan
A calendar with the best pictures from http://icanhascheezburger.com/
A research grant for this summer
The construction of a nearby Trader Joes
A hippopotamus
anything from the jcrew holiday gift giving guide
new scripted tv
plane tickets
getting off the waitlist into american lit since 1945 in January
the pony I�ve been asking for since I was six


Posted by yeah: #1 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:37 PM
the boy. definitely the boy.
Posted by hmmmmmmmmmmlt: #2 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:41 PM
"Friends in high place"

did an asian write this?
Posted by secession: #3 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:43 PM
You want the secession of both NYC and Staten Island. Should I take this to mean that you want Staten Island to secede from NYC after NYC secedes from the US?
Posted by hoosiers: #4 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Irwin Sparkes.
Posted by What about? : #5 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:51 PM
a sizable chunk of Harlem?
Posted by or...: #6 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:52 PM
A tent so I can camp on South Lawn in the spring?
Posted by Casey Aldridge: #7 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:54 PM
I knocked up Britney Spears's sister, bitchizzz. I am going to be bigger than K-Fed himself.
Posted by why do: #8 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:54 PM
buddhist monks sit in boxes during christmas?

they live in the present!
Posted by seriously: #9 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:05 PM
"Noah Feldman's babies"

What's your deal?
Posted by i agree: #10 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:15 PM
i want the boy too.
Posted by the boy!: #11 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:19 PM
why are there so few available good ones?
Posted by of course: #12 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:24 PM
the boy!

and then a nice cozy fire in a getaway resort w/ the boy of course

so where are the hot guys that arent jerks and are available on campus? they must exist right?
Posted by the girl: #13 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:27 PM
I'm Jewish, and all I want this December 24th is the girl.
Posted by ashgabat: #14 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:41 PM
all i want is a world with more dictators in it.
Posted by why: #15 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:43 PM
would anyone want more humidity in the city? dry cold is good. heat transfer is bad.
Posted by hm,: #16 (in reply to #13) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:43 PM
me too!
Posted by Casey Aldridge: #17 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:45 PM
i'll be your boy if you'll have my boy
Posted by Aww...: #18 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 11:08 PM
“My dog to be alive”

I can only offer my condolences...
Posted by Paris Hilton: #19 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Well, I want world peace.

(And As on all my finals.)
Posted by Not to: #20 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 11:23 PM
put to fine a point on it, say im the only bee in your bonnet! Build a little birdhouse in your soul!
Posted by Anonymous: #21 (in reply to #12) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Take your high standards elsewhere. Barnard will settle for me, and that's good enough for me!

All I want for Christmas is the ability to control reality with only my thoughts.
Posted by haha: #22 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 11:41 PM
i want to boy too!
Posted by alexw: #23 (in reply to #20) · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:15 AM
Dear poster #20.

You can be the only be in my bonnet.
Posted by alexw: #24 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:15 AM
bee
Posted by jamie lynn spears: #25 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM
easy access to an abortion clinic
Posted by dude: #26 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:42 AM
a giant sea turtle? i don't think you know what you're getting into. trust me
Posted by Justice John Roberts: #27 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:49 AM
The ability to once again watch my favorite episodes of Pocket Monsters
Posted by There's a picture: #28 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:50 AM
opposite me

of my primitive ancestry

who stood on rocky shores

and kept the beaches Shipwreck Free!
Posted by Casey Aldridge: #29 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Jamie, I told you we should have used the backdoor.
Posted by commander: #30 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 1:26 AM
has lost sanity.

and pants.

Posted by a boy: #31 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 5:11 AM
oh well I'm a boy and I have the girl and I'm pretty excited about that. I'm also incredibly upset because we're both headed home for break and we live so far away. And Columbia just had to have this really crazy long break this year so we're apart for 30-something days!
Posted by a girl: #32 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM
I wonder if you're my boy? I was thinking the same thing about me and my boy and this super-long separation that's coming up soon right as we both finish finals :/.

It makes me want to sing that song the schoolgirl sings at the end of "love, actually" that makes the schoolboys ogle her and made me itch to hear Mariah Carey.
Posted by another girl: #33 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 10:09 AM
♫ All i want for Christmas is youuuuuuuuuuuuu ♫

Love that movie

Posted by date with: #34 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Whit Cohen
Posted by the third girl: #35 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:03 PM
I have my boy. And he's all I could ever want.

Well, except for some improved columbia dining options and maybe even an improved GPA.

but really, he's great. Hard to find around these parts, for sure.
Posted by a girl: #36 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:28 PM
who wants the girl.
Posted by guy: #37 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:43 PM
who wants the girl. and a bottle of limited edition woodford reserve.

willing to settle for the latter to try to forget about the former.

it'd also be nice if my basketball team turned their abysmal season around.
Posted by tmw: #38 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 1:14 PM
my French to come back without any effort on my part

30 good nights' sleeps

successful, non-materially based bonding with my sister

a revised thesis

to stare at all those midwestern stars
Posted by anonyalemus: #39 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 1:59 PM
a transfer to Yale.
Posted by sed: #40 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Successful, non-horrifying bonding with my father,

many long, hot bubble baths.

completion of a non-assigned novel.

epiphany about future career
Posted by Sadia: #41 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 2:34 PM
the return of The Office

please please please.
Posted by mec: #42 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 2:44 PM
the boy in my math class. sigh.
Posted by ahem: #43 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 4:06 PM
ladies, i gots me a boy. and he is SMUG AS HELL.
Posted by kristine: #44 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 4:12 PM
i second #41. i miss it dearly.
Posted by EAL: #45 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 11:19 PM
A Ivy League championship basketball season for the Lions.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind a girl either.
Posted by whit: #46 (in reply to #34) · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 9:29 AM
wait who wants a date with me? lol what?
Posted by I want: #47 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 4:20 PM
the one I can't have and it's driving me maaad.
Posted by wishful thinker: #48 (in reply to #46) · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
(I was just thinking out loud)

Met you like a year ago, haven't run into you since.
Posted by jjv: #49 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 6:42 PM
a dinner date with Sean Connery

to drink a robust red wine on the shore of the Potomac
Posted by nb.: #50 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 11:10 PM
a cup of coffee with my crush

new clothes

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