Thing One (borrowing from Dr. Seuss): Join the Mark Twain Circle of America, if you're not already a member. For the ridiculously low price (we try to make as many things ridiculous as possible) of $25 for annual dues ($27 for a non-U.S. address), you'll receive the two semiannual issues of the Mark Twain Circular (now edited by Chad Rohman, Dominican University) and the hard-copy version (not available elsewhere) of The Mark Twain Annual (now edited by Ann Ryan, Le Moyne College). Membership in the Circle also gives you the official right to identify yourself as a Twainian--or if you prefer Vic Doyno's term, a Twainiac. Use this web address to get a form you can print out and send, along with your dues payment, to the Circle's Executive Coordinator Kerry Driscoll, Saint Joseph University: http://www.honors.uiuc.edu/files/mtcircle/signup.pdf Thing Two: Ask your library to subscribe to the online version of The Mark Twain Annual, available separately for $133/yr, or better still, as part of Wiley-Blackwell's "American Literature Collection" (which also includes The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Leviathan, Poe Studies, and the Steinbeck Review) for $598/yr. Library subscriptions are an important revenue source for the Mark Twain Circle, and are crucial in giving The Mark Twain Annual widespread exposure. Here's the web address for The Mark Twain Annual and the American Literature Collection: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/subs.asp?ref=1553-0981&site=1 Thing Three: While you're at it, you may also want to ask your library to subscribe to the Mark Twain Circular. It's very affordable: $15 for a U.S. address; $17 for non-U.S. (Your librarian will, no doubt, gasp in grateful surprise at the price.) If the library uses a subscription service (as most do), the subscription service probably can handle the subscription. Thing Four: Submit your critical or pedagogical essay for publication in The Mark Twain Annual. Send an electronic (preferably Word) version of your essay to Ann Ryan, at [log in to unmask] To view "Author Guidelines" for the Annual, go to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=1553-0981. Once you've done these four things (and possibly graded a gadzillion final exams), you can enjoy the holidays in good conscience. --Jim Leonard (Managing Editor of the Annual and Erstwhile Editor of the Circular)