The start of a new chapter

Hi friends,

Since I've managed to make it through Realtime Theory I at Colorado Technical University, I thought I start a blog in an effort to record my progress as I work toward getting an A.S. degree in court reporting.

Well, so far, so good. I have the basics well under my fingers. Memorized keyboard - check. Can type without looking at the keyboard - check. Have a good number of briefs and phrases memorized - check. For those of you who don't know what briefs and phrases are - and you'll hear these terms a lot - they are the "notes" (the letter combinations used to define a word), that represent words or a combination of words. For example, S means "is" and T means "the". Therefore, S-T stands for "is the". Get it?

Anyway, as I begin Realtime Theory II, the language of steno is getting much easier to read and I've built up a little speed - OK, very little. But I look at it this way: If I can't type slow accurately, then I won't be able to type fast accurately.

So, I guess I better get my homework done for tomorrow night's class . . . we'll talk soon.