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[gategrrl]

Ah, boy. My second week of Steno Machine class is coming to a close. Whoa. Takes a LOT of repetition, smacking those little piano-type keys over and over and training the fingers to go where they're supposed to go. I think I spent about two hours today alone on about 10 little sentences total so I'd get over the hestitation of finding the correct keys to hit.

And it was frustrating today to work on my homework and with each repetition of the work, make more and more mistakes on the paper strip. Gah. I ended up mailing in the first one I did. It still had way more mistakes than I wanted on it (I'm trying for fewer than 3 per homework, preferably one or none) but oh well. I did find out that some of the errors that I thought were errors really *aren't*, so hopefully when the prof sees that one, it'll turn out better than I thought, grade-wise.

I keep thinking ahead and imagining how COOL it's going to be when all I have to do is *listen* to someone talking, and be able to transcribe what they've just said. For some reason that kicks my motivation. Hee. I am hoping to hire myself out to Creation Con at some point so I can transcribe the panels. That would very cool. Once I'm fast enough, of course. Or sit in on writer's meetings. Or whatever else meetings like that.

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[betacandy.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking ahead and imagining how COOL it's going to be when all I have to do is *listen* to someone talking, and be able to transcribe what they've just said.

I'm totally jealous about that part. That IS something I'd love to be able to do. Very cool!

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of practice, but I admire your motivation to keep practicing. I'm taking a class this semester (just a lit class), and I cannot bring myself to do the reading. It's not even boring. I love it! And yet, here I sit, endlessly reloading my flist or doing random housecleaning that doesn't really need doing or just...well, anything but doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I've had days to get this done.