Four days!

Mrs. Kennedy and I completed the final edit to our manuscript yesterday. And that, my friends, was an alarming amount of work. My eyes and hands ache, and my brain-parts are wrung dry. Scott was helping me punch up some of the jokes, and at some point over the weekend he barked, “DID YOU HAVE TO PUT IN SO MANY WORDS?” I knew how he felt.

I actually at one point thought we could move on the same day the manuscript was due, because after all the edits weren’t all that much, and if we just improved some of the humor here and there, and added in the images, how much work could that be? I could just finish it up while I took breaks from packing! BAH HAAAAAAaaaarh. That is me wheeze-laughing as I take another swig from the dusty bottle of Kahlua I found at the back of our pantry. Kahlua plus working straight through the night makes me feel like I’m in college again!

Fortunately Scott corrected me when I insisted we could move over the weekend, and instead we are moving this Friday. Which still seems too soon, right now, because I need to sleep for at least a week. On the other hand it can’t come quickly enough, because even as I write this my neighbors are outside on the stoop, playing Who Can Smoke the Most Cigarettes While Yelling the Loudest? Hold me.

Comments

[Alyce]

Congratulations on completing the book!!!

[Sandee]

{{{Alice}}}}

[kate]

That seems like very fast turnaround for producing and editing anything. It takes me longer to write an email.

[Peggy S Brister]

I hope it was UNOPENED Kahlua. You are suppose to refridgerate that stuff!!

[Alice Bradley]

It was! SCORE! 

[Alexandra]

Oh, you scare me! Be careful with the Kalhua. and love the line. "makes me feel like I'm back in college."

CANNOT wait till you move, Alice. Cannot wait.

Eager for the book, please keep staying up, OK? I got an empty spot all ready on the nightstand for it...come to mama!

[Kari]

high five!

[Missy]

"my brain-parts are wrung dry" - possibly one of my all time favorite phrases. Will be stealing it, but will give credit where credit is due (so is that theft, after all?).

Congratulations on finishing the book! 2011 seems awfully far away...

Good luck with the move. You can sleep next week - without a terrifying soundtrack outside your window.

[Therese]

Squee! Book to come! And moving! It's all excitement at Finslippy HQ these days. ;)

[Tina]

Can't wait to read the book! Good luck with the move.

[Kristine]

Congratulations on finishing the book and lots of luck on the move!

[Kate]

Congratulations! w00t! 4 days!

So many good things. Or at least, 2 really LARGE really REALLY good things.

[Swedish Pankakes]

My neighbors used to have freestyle rap sessions on our stoop ...

[Sarah]

Congratulations on finishing the edit. That must be one hell of a great feeling!

[Anna]

You must live in crown heights! Lived there for about 6 years but needed a better school district. I miss just knowing everyone an seeing our friends, but I wouldn't move back. It's awesome to walk down the street without hearing the n word and watching the daily drug deals.
Congrats on finishing your book!

[Diana]

Hugs to you and CONGRATULATIONS! Whoohoo to you for the book and the moving. Something you may and must shamelessly brag about until the cows come home... which means forever, since you do not own cows (I deducted this all by my little Sherlockian self). Your family must be so proud of you, even though you produce so many words. But then, those many words are what we enjoy!

Team Finslippy for the win! (I have combined 2 phrases I have only learned on the internet, Team x and FTW... goodness, I have to move back to the States)

[heyjoe]

Congratulations on completing your manuscript, and good luck with the move.

Sorry for the boring comment.

[Sarah]

GO ALICE GO!!! We're routing you on from across the way! {Good luck with the move and congratulations on the book--and the move!}

Sarah Le Neerguard