A very little while.   The copyeditor, who is obviously a Higher Being, with titanium nerves and an All Night Brain, is going to have it back to my editor on the 25th, and . . . I'll have a week to turn it around.  A week!  A WEEK!  –Remember I was saying that one of my resolutions for 2010* was to spend less time on the blog?  I think it will be safe to predict that I will be remarkably–even unrecognisably terse that week. 

Meanwhile I am making hay while the sun shines.**  Or anyway...