I think I just realized that no one else cares about my transcription.

( A fantastic way to guarantee that it doesn't happen )

Transcription stats for Sunday:
Total time: 275 min - 69 min break = 206 min
File transcribed: 10 minutes of audio
Average speed: ≈20⅔ minutes-per-minute

Assignment statistics:
Total time: 1,373 min - 492 min of breaks = 881 min (14 hrs, 41 min)
Average speed: ≈15.732 minutes-per-minute

Transcription stats for Saturday
Total time: 274 min - 58 min break = 216 min
File transcribed: 11 minutes of audio
Average speed: ≈19⅔ minutes-per-minute

Transcription stats for Friday
Total time: 265 min - 58 min break - 54 min break = 153 min
File transcribed: 7 minutes of audio
Average speed: ≈21⅞ minutes-per-minute

Transcription stats for Wednesday
Total time: 71 min - 8 min break = 63 min
File transcribed: 6 minutes of video
Average speed: 10½ minutes-per-minute

Now I've gone and done it.

( The time is out of joint; O cursed spite! )

Transcription stats for Tuesday
Total time: 187 min - 47 min break = 140 min
File transcribed: 12 minutes of video
Average speed: 11⅔ minutes-per-minute

I'd been waiting to write this scene for a long time.

( A reckless act of violence )

After finishing my previous assignment on Saturday night, I decided to take Sunday night off. I used 1,081 banked words, bringing that balance to 1,919, and spent four hours playing Call of Duty: Black Ops with my brother-in-law and my other brother-in-law and a friend of ours. Subsequently, I learned that I am terrible at Call of Duty: Black Ops ( Read more... )

This is related to the entry I posted half-an-hour ago, which included the text and reading of my sonnet "All Too Brief."

( To step across that Mythic Brink, and find him waiting there )