Digging through a plastic storage container filled with ephemera from my early school years, I found something too funny not to share.

It dates from about third or fourth grade, and yes … it’s Spock dressed as Santa. The assignment seems to have been to draw someone I thought would make a good Santa Claus and explain why.

The back reads thusly:

I think Mr. Spock would make a good Santa Claus because he is logical and because he has pointed ears.

Not enough early childhood drawings of Mr. Spock? Behind the cut is another one.

OK, OK. I had something of a crush on the ever-so-logical Mr. Spock. What can I say? I was a strange child.