Well, dear readers, for those of you who were errant and truant over the weekend, I am happy to tell you that on Saturday I finished the sequel to Benjamin Kritzer. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? Someone asked me if I was on a high because I’d finished it and I described the feeling as the opposite of a high. It felt, in reality, like I’d been run over by a lorry or, at the very least, a Peter Lorre. I gave the new pages to my friend Margaret and she read them and phoned me to tell me she loved them. So, the hard copy is now at the Xerox place because I like to proof and correct right on the hard copy before doing changes on the computer. Interestingly, I finished this book one year and one month from the last one – and I did so despite that crazy fourteen week television show. And now I shall complete the other two things I’ve been working on within the next two weeks. And my proofers will start the arduous task of proofing the book and I will also start the arduous task of nitpicking it (although I do that quite a lot as I go along). But it sure will be interesting to read it from start to finish now.
We had a lovely room full of chatting people last night and we chatted until the cows came home and a good time was had by our various and sundried dear readers. Hey, has anyone around here noticed that it is one count them one day until we have a brand spanking New Year? I, frankly, find that astonishing. Where did the old year go, that’s what I want to know? This past year has been a real roller coaster ride and I will be talking about it extensively on our rockin’ New Year’s Eve celebration, both in notes and in hourly posts. I will be doing my year-end bests and we’ll be having the best New Year’s Eve party in town right here at haineshisway.com. So, be sure to stop by often!!! Because we’re the ginchiest!!! It’s gonna be so cool!!! What fun!!! What is with all that ridiculously stupid punctuation? Who would use punctuation like that? I must stop it this very minute!!!
Well, dear readers, why don’t we click on the Unseemly Button below so we can see if there’s any more unseemly punctuation going on!!!
Nope, thank goodness, no unseemly punctuation. Actually, Punctuation is quite a good Meltz and Ernest song – I’ll see if I can unearth it. I think the opening verse is:
Our love is like a semi-colon
It stops and then it starts
Our love is like a comma
When we interrupt our hearts
So don’t put a period on our love
Let’s not have a sour love
Let’s have a love that’s sweet
Like a sentence that’s complete…
I’ll see if I can find the rest of it because, as always, it’s an astonishing song.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go to the Xerox place and pick up my book, I must write my other projects, I must, in short, get crackin’. Now, may I ask that we send the year of 2002 out with a bang, and by that I mean with a plethora of posts? Today’s topic of discussion: What are your five favorite things that you’ve done this year? Post away, my pretties, and I’ll be checking in often!!! Often!!! I mean it!!! Really!!!