Next weekend starts Thanksgiving Break. Though looked forward to by all as a well-needed week off of school, Thanksgiving isn’t just about lying around in your jammies and watching Ren & Stimpy like you used to every time you were off for school as a young’n. It’s a week full of family (parents!) and high school friends you don’t even like anymore (they just don’t get it!) And there’s the arguing about borrowing the car, the nosy siblings, the chores…blech.

And though there’s some perks (fresh baked cookiessss!), it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go all out party like it’s your last weekend living under your own roof. Because it is. So go wild, and soak up your fill of collegiate fun before it’s back to ma and pa:

Friday:

Highdive: The Boat Drunks, 7pm

Canopy Club: Early:  Illini 4000 Benefit  with World’s First Flying Machine, Roses & Sake, Organic Flow & No Comment, 6:30pm, $10; Late: The Funky Monks (RHCP Tribute Band) with The Third Flight, 9pm, $8

Iron Post: Early: Desafinado, 5pm, free; Late: Lucky Mullholland, 9pm, $5

Cowboy Monkey: NIL8 with Goodyear Pimps, 10pm, $6