But Mr. Mehta said he wished he could fast-forward the calendar to a week hence, to the post-birth, and be assured that the book would sell.
As Hollywood fast-forwards the calendar, starting the lucrative summer movie season with spring only half-sprung, Madison Avenue is scrambling to keep pace.
And so before the inkwells dry up, it is time to fast-forward the Advent calendar for an early and cautionary holiday special, "A TV Carol".
Onward flutter the calendar pages.
The other alternative is to set aside the Lords' usual conventions and take report stage on February 7th, when according to the forward calendar of Lords business, "the House may sit".
Having lost my child, my mother and husband in one year opened my eyes to the multitude of merrymakers who would rather flip the calendar forward from November 26 to January 2. Needless to say, the holidays bring up many feelings: some happy but some unnecessarily sad.
The league is obviously our priority but we can put the game on the calendar, look forward to it and then enjoy the day when it arrives.
As we count down the final hours of 2011 and look forward to (perhaps drunkenly!) turning the calendar to 2012, the general consensus amongst resolution makers is the same as always: have a better next year.
Physicians usually determine the date of the estimated time for delivery by adding seven days to the first day of the last menstrual period and counting forward nine calendar months; i.e., if the last period began on January 10, the date of delivery is October 17.
The redemptive heroics that are doubtless forthcoming in the next episode are little to look forward to; they have the inevitability of the calendar.
The final version of the calendar brought the race forward to April.
