The Roughest Cut: why a 30-minute movies takes forever to edit

I've got a long 10 days ahead of me. Unfortunately, they're not nearly long enough.

A few days ago Mike informed me that he's too bogged down with his current film projects to edit the Rough Cut in time to record everyone's lines over winter break, which would push back completion of the film by several months. Luckily, I've already got rough cuts of several scenes of the film. Unluckily, it's not nearly enough. Why not? Check this out.

Donny's To-Do List

1. Finish school
2. Apply to college
3. Fix shower/get new bed/finish getting Christmas presents before girlfriend arrives
4. Train for 2nd degree black belt testing
5. Edit the Rough Cut

With applying to college and my girlfriend heading down and the holidays coming up, the next few weeks of my life are going to be ridiculously busy without me editing the scenes. I'm happy to do it, I mean, editing is what started me on film making and anything to get the film done faster is fine with me, but I'm worried about editing scenes while my girlfriend is here, because it's insanely boring to watch and I'm already cutting our time together a day short by going to Sundance. Editing while she's here would just be dick.

Hoping someone makes a sweet movie about my stress-induced self decapitation,
dk