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Thoughts we all have during Thanksgiving break as described by Kim K. tweets

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

‘Tis the season, Bears, aka the season to catch up on all your favorite shows. We here at the Clog have been using our extra couple of free days this Thanksgiving break to their very highest potential, meaning we’ve been binge-watching the 15th season of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” It is during this time that we made an executive decision: Kim K. is our Thanksgiving spirit animal. So, without further ado, here are several Kim K. tweets that perfectly capture all the thoughts we’ve had during this Thanksgiving break thus far.

When you’re about to escape the dark pit named UC Berkeley after finishing your last midterm:

Honestly, the thought of sleeping in your own bed is the single thing that’s gotten you through the last three months. To be fair, the idea of going home always seems better than the reality, but we won’t dwell on that now as spirits are high and hearts are merry. You packed your suitcase listening to Justin Bieber’s Under the Mistletoe album (No? Just us?), said “hasta la vista” to the air quality, and your emotional state is right on Kim K.’s wavelength when she drafted this tweet (which we must say is practically poetry).

When you almost forgot the delights of holiday traveling

You managed to dodge the Norovirus in Berkeley and you won’t let the common cold bring you down now. Nothing can stop you from your happy, healthy holiday (even the kid sneezing on you in the plane). If you didn’t still have your N95 smoke mask in your backpack to protect you, you’d make like Kim K. and tell all the sweeties to cover their swiney.

That feeling of anticipation as you wonder which relatives will show up to Thanksgiving

Will Aunt Judy make an appearance this year at last? She may be crazy, but she is, indeed, FABULOUS. Is that a compliment, you ask? We shall defer to Kim K. on this one.

How all of your relatives assume you speak because you go to school in California

Any and all attempts at explaining that you’re located hours away from a beach are futile — they’re running with your new identity as a beach bum. You should probably just play along and give them the old shaka brah at this point — it’s a real crowd-pleaser.

When you try something new at Thanksgiving dinner and question your entire existence

 You like yams, after all? Fake news. Or maybe college has changed you.

When your politically outspoken uncle really had to go there

 It didn’t have to come to this Uncle Jim — it really didn’t. But here we are. SMH.

When you remember how boring home can be

Ah, yes! It’s all coming back to you now a good four days into break. Kim K., you always know just the right thing to say. You’re down and aren’t even laughing out loud — you’re dead serious.

But then you remember your at-home survival hacks…

Scattergories: somewhere between fist bumping at the Jersey Shore and boredom. Kim K. — don’t get us wrong — you’re the QUEEEN of many, many things, but Scattergories is your crowning achievement.

The moment after you finish Thanksgiving dinner

Hear that? That’s your tires skrt-ing into the Walmart parking lot, probably. Hey, we don’t blame you, and neither would Kim K., apparently.

Happy Thanksgiving, Bears. We hope you have a happy and healthy break with your loved ones! There’s a whole, wide world out there to be thankful for, but if nothing else, let us here at the Clog humbly suggest gratefulness to our spirit animal (of Thanksgiving season and all 15 seasons): our queen Kim K. and her inspiring use of Twitter.

Contact McKenna Hathaway at [email protected].
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NOVEMBER 22, 2018