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One of my myriad unnamed Graphic Designer coworkers walked into the office this morning, looked at me, and said "It is just up-yours cold out there."

I cannot argue, it is indeed up-yours cold in Chicago today.

I went to bed at some ridiculous hour like 8pm last night, and overslept this morning by 45 minutes (still got to work on time! God bless the El). I couldn't talk for about the first ten minutes of work, but I'm not sure if that was from the Up Yours Cold or from an impending illness. Given the 12 hours of sleep and the coughing and runny nose, I'm going with "impending illness" for now and popping cough drops like they're going out of style.

In addition to the Twelve Days of Christmas filk, in the last post we filked both Rudolph the Red-Nosed Roomba and Deck The Halls (now known as Schadenfreude; it's in two parts).

Please feel free to continue, and I'll put them all in a PDF songbook; may I suggest "O Little Tote Of Bethlehem" and/or "Wildebeest of Orient Africa Are". :D Bonus if you can work in "sub-saharan" at some point.

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jack_and_ellis has been updated!

Chapter Thirty-Nine is posted and complete. Ellis's plan goes off (almost) without a hitch, Clare returns to the Res, Purva looks to the future, and Jack knows a lot of songs about trains. Which is good, if you're under arrest and really want to annoy your guards....

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I went to Fox & Obel for to buy my friend a fruitcake...

Sounds like the start of a folk song any way I slice it.

Problem is, THERE WAS NO FRUITCAKE TO BE HAD. They didn't even get any in today! So I must return tomorrow. Actually tomorrow I have to buy clothes, the last of the Christmas presents, the fruitcake, and then go to the post office to pick up a package. I did get sweets, though. Then I caught a cab home, riding along Lake Shore Drive with the moon up and BIG AND FULL AND YELLOW. I've never seen a moon that shade of yellow before. I was pretty impressed.

When I got home I made Piles Of Christmas Gifts, because I needed to sort out who's getting what, and then played on the Wii for a bit. I decided that it would probably be wisest to start over from the beginning with Zelda: Twilight Princess, because I'd basically forgotten everything I knew and I stopped at the bit with the flaming carriage and the warthogs, because NOBODY CAN BEAT THAT PART EVER. And if you happen to know a cheat for jumping past it, fuckin' tell me, because I am not a proud man and even if I did beat it there would be no sense of accomplishment, only relief.

Now I'm just waiting for PeaPod and marveling at the amount of filk you guys will put out with even the slightest hint of encouragement.