Holiday Random

Best thing about Christmas? It falls on a Tuesday this year, meaning people are pretty much taking the entire week off, meaning I finally, finally get a break. Okay, sure, I billed some hours today, and I'll be working Wednesday-Friday, but I have no client meetings. This in and of itself means that the week is about a million times saner than usual.

Tomorrow morning, I'll actually have time to make the holiday candy (chocolate peanut toffee) and maybe do some more work on the Ten 'n' Donna genfic. Later, columbina and I will observe the holiday in the traditional manner of my people by joining dollycake for Sweeney Todd and Chinese food. (Unless Penang is open, in which case, mmm, Malaysian food.) And then, late at night, will be VOTD.

Anyway, merry Christmas, to those celebrating it, and if you aren't, hey, vacation day. I leave you with a couple of Christmas-themed but entirely secular links:

• calapine's delightful take on the UNIT holiday party, featuring Martha, Two, and every old-skool UNIT companion you could possibly think of.
  
• The most cracktastic set of Christmas song parodies I have ever seen, and I speak as someone who has listened to Cthulhu Christmas filk. (Briefly, so as to avoid an exploding head.) "We Three Jeans" is a particularly brain-damaging bit of meta.