Midterms are here and procrastination season is in full swing, so Bwog wants to help you make the most (make the least?) of your wasted time.

We've created a bingo game for everyone studying in Butler to play. The game board is filled with 25 of Butler's most common annoyances and quirks around exam season. Everyone is eligible—simply click the screenshot of the game (right) to open up the game board.

If you're in Butler and you see something happen that's on the board, reply to this post with a comment describing what you saw and where. Bwog staffers will then check off squares and update the ButlerBingo board as the comments roll in.

Can Columbia score a bingo? It's up to you, loyal Bwog readers!

(Oh, and try to get some studying done, too.)

Bwog just received the following Shocking Report from Lecture Hop editor Pierce Stanley, who's currently staked out in Butler:

"There is a pigeon in the reference room right now, flying around trying to get out and walking alongside the books on the walls. Everyone is sort of watching and laughing."

Quickly! What should we name him? Stanley suggests Webster, "in honor of one of the most seminal reference books ever."

And if you're in Butler and you have a camera, snap a picture of this delightful avian distraction and send it to bwog@columbia.edu.

UPDATE 9:14 PM: Saakashtweety it is!

Too much to sift through on YouTube? Life's hard. Bwog's here to help.

There's nothing as bad as being in Butler on a Saturday night. But, instead of wasting your study break tonight on another disappointing episode of SNL, Bwog suggests checking out Sarah Dooley's (BC '11) delightful YouTube series, AndSarah.

Sarah's face may be familiar to you, but her acting and writing will surprise you. In each of the series' three episodes, Sarah offers clever and carefully crafted portraits of the life and times of college freshman. Her character is a caricature of herself, awkwardly idiosyncratic and simultaneously accessible to all undergraduates.

Her self-conscious fidgets and sputters are well-timed and reinforce her ridiculous, and often poignant, blunders. Although it takes a couple of minutes to get used to Sarah's mannerisms in the first episode, it's impossible to resist her lessons in people watching on College Walk and lunching alone in Hewitt.

Taking the tempera to the walls of McIntosh just wasn't enough to satisfy a (few) vandal(s). A tipster alerted Bwog to the brightly colored trails currently on the scaffolding at the south side of Butler Library. The tipster speculated students (who else?) could have heaved paint out of the top floor windows.

Bwog is unsure when this happened -- we could have missed this for months now -- but judging by the poor, now turquoise tree (below) we'd say the marks are pretty fresh.

- SEV

Spec is only running Monday and Wednesday on this sunny, gloriously action-packed midterm week. So in the absence of our usual morning recap, we present this motley roundup of completely unrelated miscellany...

• Behold the latest email from the CC '09 class council, proving to seniors, perhaps, that they don't have it so bad. The missive begins by observing "Wollstonecraft is a hotty," and quickly goes downhill. A section titled "Free Food Just Doesn't Get Any Freer" describes the purchase and movement of the Broadway farmer's market a few meters inside, to Lerner. To wit, soon will be your "Last Chance to SEXIFY" the student center. Add an announcement for a campus group J. Sachs project called GROCC, at least three misspellings, four instances of triple exclamation points, and three announcements copied and pasted from other emails. Coda? "BEST OF LUCK ON THE MIDDIES". Beware, sophomores - it's never too early to start worrying about Class Day.

• You've probably only visited if you've taken the English department's seminar on children's literature, or if you're a GS student with a full house. The rest of us, apparently, are missing out: Bank Street Bookstore was recently named by New York magazine as the best indie book vendor (well, for kids) in town. Come to think of it, where else would you find a place featuring picture books in Urdu, Vietnamese, and Bengali - not to mention an edition of "Winnie the Pooh"...in Latin?

• Material on college sex finally running thin, the Daily News calls out Columbia students for throwing "narcissistic" parties. Which deadly sin will the tabloids tackle next week?

• Meanwhile, Dartmouth students discover a new way to be bored...as if they needed it?

-CJS