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Boss taking another long lunch? Best client in Gstaad until the New Year? Or maybe your director is exercising her 'work-from-home' privilege (bet you haven't seen an email yet). If you are at work right now then you know what we're going through, and there's still a full bloody week until Christmas Eve.

Classic Puccini at the Royal Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia 7:30pm. Bow St, WC2. £6-165. 020 7304 4000 or here.

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Sketch's Parlour is the stage for live performance forum Action#14. 9 Conduit St W1. 7pm-2am. Free, RSVP req'd.

Bored, broke and a touch bitter, we've already trawled the contents of televisionwithoutpity, found some new blogs to trash and even stopped checking the progess of Factory Girl on IMDb (filming began last week, whatever).

We've been entertained by gofugyourself, flabbergasted by the TomKat version of Candy Shop (who has time to make this shite?) and chuckled at the Mosstril (sorry Kate, we love you, but this is pretty funny).

We've toyed with purchasing a feel good present - the guy who sits beside me is getting his girl a goat, how sweet - and are still desperately searching for last minute fares (Kayak trawls airline sites for the best fares, across the board).

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Treat yourself to a concert with the London Community Gospel Choir at Jazz Café. 7pm. 5 Parkway, NW1. £16. 0870 264 3333 or here.

Trash Christmas Party hosts Hot Chip on top of the usual shenanigans. 10pm-3am. 18 West Central St, WC1. £6.

We've even exhausted mags from magwerk, gossip from laineygossip.com, media news from Romenesko (which is a bitch to read. New format please!), and memoirs from the new ode-to-Johnny Cash site (words from JT LeRoy and Mr Slimane).

The only thing left to do is see how dumb we've become this holiday season.

And if your office's Perpetua does happen to walk by, try the face-on 'What? this is research and I'm very busy' bluff and simultaneously minimise all screens (Windows key-'M' or Option-Command-'M' for the Macs). Sorted.

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Synth pop veterans Human League play at Forum. 7pm. 9-17 Highgate Road, NW5. £27. 0870 264 3333 or here.

Jamming down south? Don't miss Acoustic Lounge Xmas Open Mic Night at The Sun. 9pm. 47 Old Town, SW4.
Last week of Bridget Smith at Frith St Gallery, The Atlas Group at Anthony Reynolds, Edd Pearman at Mark Jason, Jimeoin at Soho Theatre and Walk Hard at Tricycle.
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