• What holiday or holidays do you celebrate this time of year? – Define “celebrate.”
  
• What was the best gift you have ever received? – Define “best.” Oh, okay. I don’t have a “Best. Christmas. Gift. Ever.” for you, I’m afraid. I’m happy to get anything at all, really. I like to think that’s a good thing, because the minute I start ranking my Christmas input is the minute I start taking the “holiday” way, way too seriously.
  
• What was the worst gift you’ve ever given? – The year Titanic came out, because of how much Wendi seemed to enjoy the film in the theater I decided to get her the two-tape widescreen set. She unwrapped it, frowned at me and said, “What did you get me this for?” Oh well.
  
• Where will you be celebrating the holidays? Are you hosting? Going away? – Home. No. No.
  
• If you could spend the holidays with someone who isn’t around, who would it be with? Why? – Grandma Hjordis. I miss her more than any other family member, dead or alive, with the possible exception of Frederick, who Hjordis left this mortal plane to rejoin. If you believe in that sort of thing, that is. Ah, other than that, I’d love to have my friends around me. That’s right, all of them. Dammit.

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