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Got shopping tips? MiddBlog will get you started. Feel free to share your brilliant plans for gift-giving this season through the comments. Or just email a color-coded and indexed online gifting spreadsheet as one friend sent me today…

• Apple: One-day sale on iPods and MacBooks. Still expensive.
• Timbuk2: There may be one ounce of hipness left in their messenger bags which increasingly populate our campus. Have them ship to Midd for free through Dec. 8!
• REI: OK, you’re going to need gear-up for our long winter with proper socks, scarves, and hats. This is the place to do it with their Winter Sale through Dec. 1.
• JCrew: Go ahead, perpetuate the JCrew Middlebury myth with a discount through Nov 29.
• Kiva.org: Feeling gifting without the consumption part? Kiva.org gives micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations. Give a gift certificate.
• Economist: Need to break the Midd bubble? Get a subscription to the Economist. News, once a week, non-partisan, smart, detailed, and awesome.
• Etsy: Buy handmade. Etsy links you up with thousands of hand-crafters.
• Amazon: The future of textbooks is The Kindle. Woah, ERES just got easier.
• Footie Pajamas: You know you will be the life of your hall if you’re seen with one-piece footie pajamas.
• BrighterPlanet: OK, this isn’t a gift. But you should probably be buying your presents with this credit card that fights climate change as you shop. (yes, it’s a Middkid alumni project)
• Threadless.
• Tom’s Shoes: An alternative online shoe store that, for every pair you buy, donates a pair of shoes to a child in need. Check it out.
• Gift cards: Bad.

Middblog wishes you a happy Thanksgiving Break! Safe travels!

Just look at this cranberry-free feast courtesy of the new Life Photo Archive (via Google). November 1959: “Fruit relishes that can be substituted for cranberries at thanksgiving, re: ban on cranberries contaminated by poisonous weed-killer.”

Go go go! Threadless sale on t-shirts starting at $5…because MCAB can only do so many t-shirts that say “I Wanna Take You There” and “Fight Boys Fight.”

This one is for all you scrabble players out there…including Kate Lupo ‘10, scrabble-queen.

If there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s raking leaves. I hate raking leaves with the same passion that I love animals.

Thank heavens for Rent-a-Rugger!

The womens’ rugby team is raising funds for their upcoming trip to Ireland by renting themselves out for assorted services, like dog walking or . . . raking leaves! How ’bout that!

Today, two ladies from the rugby team raked the leaves in my yard for two hours. Not only did they rake my entire yard, they also did a mighty fine job! Thanks, Rent-a-Rugger!

In need of a rugger? Send an e-mail to rent.a.rugger [at] gmail [dot] com.

Jonathan Bischof writes in:

Everyone is invited: November  28-29, 8am - 5pm to the annual Coats from
Slopes coat drive and ski sale benefit.

It will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in Middlebury Vermont.
There will be new and used ski equipment and accessories from famous brands
at great pricing.

Please bring any clean coats to donate for our collection. The coats will be
distributed mostly in Vermont through food kitchens, homeless shelters and
to directly to individuals in need.

Limelight

Originally uploaded by ryanocerosk

As you may know, I am a huge, HUGE fan of Cuteoverload.com. In fact, last fall, I prescribed Cute Overload as the perfect antidote to college.

Just a moment ago, I took a little looksie at Cute Overload and–wonders never cease to amaze–I found the cutest little picture of a puppy belonging to none other than . . . Jessie G. ‘08! I just about blew milk all over my computer screen. (And not only because Finn is wearing a sweater made out of a sock!)

Jessie G., I think you are quite possibly the most successful person from the Class of 2008.