It’s finally that time of year again. The time of year for faculty and students alike to make a list, check it twice and….oops, wrong holiday.

It’s the time of year to drink beer all day, cause large quantities of destruction to property and start fires. No, wait, that was last weekend.

OK, so it’s time to eat turkey all day, lay on the couch and watch football and spend time with loved ones.

That’s right, it’s Thanksgiving.

So just what are people doing over the holiday break?

Here are the top ten Thanksgiving activities for 2002.

10. Traditional dinner at home

Friends and family really are something to be thankful for.

9. Listen to the “Thanksgiving Song” by Adam Sandler

Sandler says he, “Loves to eat turkey ’cause it’s good, he loves to eat turkey like a good boy should. Gobble Gobble goo and Gobble Gobble giggle, I wish turkey only cost a nickel.”

You said it man.

8. Play pin the tail on the turkey

This is a favorite activity of Shane Walter, a senior in finance at OSU.

“Each year my family sets three birds loose in our yard. We call them yard-birds, but they’re actually real turkeys,” Walter said. “The first one of us to catch a yard-bird and stick him with the tail gets the wishbone. Believe me, it’s harder than you’d think.”

7. Gamble the turkey in Las Vegas

Hop a plane to the desert to enjoy a holiday spin of the roulette wheel with Wayne Newton, the ghost of Frank Sinatra and the Vegas showgirls.

6. Spend Thanksgiving with the president (Bush or Holbrook)

OSU student Terri Lindenmayer, a native of D.C., said the White House always leaves the left-over turkey out for visitors to make sandwiches with.

“It’s too dry and overcooked,” Lindernmayer said.

Is she talking about the turkey?

5. Go to a Blue Jackets game.

Kay Halasek, professor in English, said by day she’ll keep her nose in “Snows Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson, but at night she’s ready for some action. Some non-academic action at a Blue Jackets game.

4. Spend Thanksgiving with  motivational speaker Matt Foley.

Go down by the river with Chris Farley and the rest of the cast members from “Saturday Night Live’s” past, and watch SNL reruns all day on Comedy Central.

3. Combine large quantities of wine and turkey.

With the alcohol in wine, and the triptophene in turkey, you’ll be sleeping like a baby before you know it. Just make sure Jerry and George don’t get into your toy collection.

2. Collect insurance money.

Josh Cartmell was planning on a normal Thanksgiving, until his car was tipped over Saturday night.

“It’s not that big a deal,” Cartmell said. “I mean, we did win the game.”

And the No. 1 thing to do for Thanksgiving is…..

1. Sleep.

Erik Bussa is a senior in journalism.