I'd rather have the day off,

but the big advantage of having to go into work when everybody else has the day off is that there is no traffic, so the commute is not nearly as aggravating as usual.

And it's totally gonna be one of those days in terms of work actually getting done, which is to say, "Yeah, not much."

Virtual Shmirtual, I want real candy, bitch.

I do not comprehend virtual gifts.
I mean, the charity ones, sure. $0.99 to charity and then as a bonus someone gets a nifty thingy in their profile.

But for the non-charity ones? Where all you're doing is paying LJ to put a picture in someone's profile that expires and goes away after two weeks?
Nope. Don't get it.

Send them a free e-card. Write a post about how awesome you think they are. Make your own little graphic that they can keep in their profile forever if they want to.
Heck, you could probably buy them some actual chocolate and snail mail it to them for not much more than 99 cents. It wouldn't be high quality chocolate, but it'd taste a lot better than the virtual variety.