ODDEST CHRISTMAS EVER:  I spent the entire day working on the copyedits for the volume of essays my gentlemen friend and I working on for Encounter Books.  The book should be out in a few months.  It will have essays by John Ellis, Gail Heriot, Gail Heriot & Carissa Mulder, Lance Izumi & Rowena Itchon, Peter Kirsanow, Heather Mac Donald, Maimon Schwarzschild, and Peter Wood.

I’m pleased and excited about the book (more details to follow), but … well … working on copyedits would be a tedious way to spend an ordinary working day.  Doing it on Christmas Day felt completely wrong … almost disorienting.

Just wait till next year:  Biggest tree ever.  Decorations for the whole house.  Poinsettias.  Christmas turkey.  Figgy pudding.  Egg nog.  Hark the Herald Angels Sing.  Guaranteed.