Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup --
Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup

K. just called. What a thing to wake up to. Mmmmph. _ respond? 09:11:01 AM, Thursday 23 June 2005

Have started seriously considering getting trained in stenography. I like moving my fingers while my eyes and ears are occupied. It's why I listen to audiobooks and play video games, but rarely one without the other. I'm damn quick at qwerty, and I bet I could be even better at this kind of phoneme-based setup, once I wrap my brain around it. I had discounted the idea before because I have zero interest in court reporting per se -- but this is the same training you have to get in order to become a closed captioner or DVD subtitler, and that stuff sounds fun and pays big spondoolik. It'd be the same sort of work as I'm doing now, only realtime and exciting and not restricted to interviews and reality shows. I hope that an advanced degree in the Humanities isn't a total pipe dream, but, firstly, I don't know how I'd live while getting such a thing, even assuming I could find a place whose tuition wouldn't break me, and, secondly, it ain't gonna put rarebit on the table once I'm hooded, especially since teaching ain't my calling nohow. I've got a girl who's either launching a singing career or heading straight down the doctoral road in a couple years. I want us to live together when she graduates, damnit, and both of those options involved a delayed payoff, no matter how studly you are (and she is). Everyone says now is just when the demand for closed-captioners is starting to explode, and I don't want to miss this wave the way I missed the computer boom. So. I'm going to look into it. _ respond?