Ah, Thanksgiving break, the time for turkey, family, pie, and untimely assigned papers. Surprisingly, Bwog has a family too, so posts may be a bit sparse for the next few days. But before we binge on pecan pie, in the vein of traditions, Bwog gives credit where it's due. Through a very long e-mail thread, Bwog has gathered a list of what our staffers are thankful for. It's a little long, at times convoluted, but it comes with all the best intentions.
My tuition
The extermination of the bedbugs on Schapiro 12
Claremont security guards
Barnard shuttle
Simon, the swipe desk guard in McBain
Edibles and drinkables
Vegan cupcakes
Pinkberry
Bars with free pizza
CrackDel
Spicy special
M2M cheeseburger combo
$2 cans of Red Bull from the 116th St. kiosk
Sip's half off Mondays
Westside market
Free cheese samples at Westside
Free coffee and cookies in Dodge and Lewisohn
Tea and cookies in the Philosophy lounge
Meredith's Bread (from the farmer's market)
99 cent cans of A
Pumpkin beer/soup/bread
Trader Joe's Beer
Robert's American Gourmet Potato Flyers with Balsamic Vinegar and Sea Salt
Soy bacon
Haagen Dazs' cake hotline
3.3 lb tubs of cookie dough from
Academia
Peter Bearman
David Yerkes
Richard Bulliet
Eric Foner
Everything about Nicholas Dames
Jstor
Deadline extensions
Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins' academic scarves
p/d/f
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Contemporary Civilization
Beau, my hip-hop T.A.
Ian, my 20th century comp lit T.A.
The smaller things
Almost being 21
Old high school friendships
Roommates who let you slip a pair of pants into their load of laundry
The little boy i saw last week on 114th who was holding his sister on a leash
Swingsets
Getting to see your pets during break
Cowboy boots finally being over
6 year olds breakdancing
Dollar stores
No subway fare increases
Parental largesse
Bicycles
My rice cooker
Technology
g-chat emoticons
Credit card machines in taxis
Google Maps/Reader/Alerts
Mac geniuses
Skype
Non-controversial stem cell research
oink (r.i.p)
Super Mario Galaxy on wii
Mac sticky notes
Battery life
Sirius satellite radio on the internet
Clocks that automatically change themselves for daylight savings time
Scrabulous
Tab browsing
The world beyond the gates
The Manhattan Greenway
BAM
McCarren Park Pool
The Williamsburg bridge
Amtrak
The D train
Campus activists who go abroad in spring
Vamoose bus
Zipcar
Culture
Morton Feldman
The Approval Matrix
The Coen brothers
In Rainbows
Weeds
Heroes
Frank O'Hara poems
Free concert tickets of various sorts
People who understand Flight of the Conchords references
Marcel Duchamp
Miranda July
Balkan folk music (and the boyish, floppy-haired hipstaaas who now make it)
A Prairie Home Companion
This American Life
Slate
Wendell Berry
My Bloody Valentine reuniting
Jakob and Julia
Mary Oliver
Ryan Adams/DJ Reggie
McSweeney's lists
Malcolm Gladwell resumes blogging
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Bwog!