I SEE THE LIGHT...

at the END of the tunnel. YES, the END of the tunnel!! I passed my last 180 Jury Charge last night. This means I am now on my final run of 200 wpm in Jury Charge. I'm also at the end of LIT at 180 wpm. When I pass 3 tests in each of these categories, I'm done with both of those. Done, I tell you!! I have 2 more QA's at 200 wpm and then on to my final speed in that category.

So basically overall, when I started this blog, I had a goal. I had a short term goal that needed to be completed by August. I DID IT!! I did it, I did it. Now, the game begins. I have another goal that I would love to have completed by December, but I feel more realistically it's gonna take me til June of next year. BUT no later than June. At the rate of "speed" I'm going, there's no way it'll take me any longer than June. So that is what I have my eyes set on...June 2011, I will be graduating. (Actually, it could be May, but let me check that out).

That's all for now!

OH LIT, WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO?

Well, I'm having no luck in this category. It's just not slowing down the way the other speeds did. I pray, I pray that soon I'll start making some headway.

GLORIOUS DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!

I did it!! I passed a 180 JC last night. I have 8 more tests and only need 1 of them to be a pass. HOWEVER, that's not good enough for me. I want to succeed in all or the majority of them to be satisfied with this speed. I'm going to transcribe and pass one of them, but I want to be confident in all of them, in order for me to feel confident in moving on to my last round of JCs at 200 wpm.

SECOND ROUND OF QA--200wpm

Not bad, not bad. Got a 93.3%, which is up from the first time. I'm optimistic.

HELLO, ROAD BLOCK...NICE TO MEET YOU!

It's official, I've met my road block. However, we won't be getting to know each other very well. In fact, I wouldn't even call him an acquaintance. LIT was brutal, once again, but I will overcome this speed. I will get through it. Didn't type any of the tests last night. Next week will be better.

SLOWLY, BUT (hopefully) SURELY!

Well, my first round of QA at 200 wpm was not bad at all. In fact, I had no dropped words, just a bunch of words that I translated incorrectly or I put a "the" instead of an "a". I got a 92% on the first test I transcribed and still have a test to work on. I'm debating about whether to finish that or not, or just wait for more QA's to where I feel comfortable with the speed. We'll see.

As for my round of JC's on Thursday. I'm convinced that the first three tests were NOT at 180 wpm, but more like 200 or faster. The speaker started off decent and then sped up. There is no way that was 180 wpm. I'm confident in saying that because I could hear the blatant "speed up". It was so obvious from the way she started speaking to shortly thereafter she just took off. I say that because the first three tests were brutal. I got the third one, but I feel like it was very messy. I didn't even look at it, I just feel like it was, so I trashed it. If I thought I had a chance, there's no way I would've trashed it, so I feel confident in doing that.

The last JC I typed up, I was sure, absolutely sure that was a pass. But, no, 94.6%! And again, if only I would've done this or that, it would've been a pass.

So I have next week and two days of finals, in which I can choose to do JC. So basically I have 12 more tests and I only have to get two of them. I want to get the majority of them, but to pass out of the speed, I only need two. Again, my goal is to get the majority of them, so I feel confident knowing that I truly passed out of that speed and not just by luck.

We shall see!

I'VE OFFICIALLY MET MY MATCH...

180 doesn't like me. JC was brutal the other night and 180 LIT is just as brutal. Woe is me. I might have to settle in to this speed for a while. Get to know, get comfortable with it, make friends with it, cuz I have a feeling me and 180 are gonna have a long time to get to know each other. :(