Handed in my book ms

Empty feeling, horrible, but grand, like being relieved of a burden, being able to look around the room again.  Noticing how I'd held everything in abeyance and now have to deal with it.  The horrible state of my absurd piles of notes and photocopies.  My lecture notes sprayed out all over the floor.  I sent it to E.C. on Wednesday.  I wait for peer review notes.  I hope to have a contract. I hope they publish it.  I don't know how to do real maps.  I hope they advise me on the maps.  I am happy I managed to write it.  It was write it or die.