November 30, 2005 – 4:40 pm
In case you were wondering, you should be practicing your speed right now. Stenograph.com is marketing a nice little device to constantly remind you that you as a court reporter you’ll always be under a clock. Tick tock tick tock . . . steno. While there isn’t any real correlation between this clock and practicing, [...]
November 29, 2005 – 9:46 pm
Today was a magnificent day. In the morning, both Scott and I got up late and had to ride a rather crowded train in the morning. There’s nothing like being packed in the multicultural buffet that is the New York subway first thing in the morning to make you rethink getting out of bed that [...]
November 21, 2005 – 1:57 pm
I guess I wasn’t really surprised, but I definitely remember telling my husband shortly after I began studying court reporting that it was a field dominated by women. At my first school in Valley Stream, there were only a handful of men. Now at NYCI there are more, but still, I’d say it’s at least [...]
November 18, 2005 – 9:03 am
In case you haven’t been following my court reporting saga, the latest news was that I had finally upgraded to a realtime machine for the rest of my studies. I got a Stentura 200SRT and caseCATalyst4. They worked great except for one problem—they wouldn’t work together. Oops. The realtime cable arrived yesterday and everything is [...]
November 12, 2005 – 1:11 pm
So. I got my writer. I got my software. I charged it like a good girl. I turned it on. Cleared the memory. Correct light combinations. Hmm. I turned it on to “student mode.” Yep, green and red lights working properly. OK. I installed caseCATalyst4 without incident, including the goofy USB key. OK. Got in, [...]