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10.3.10
... 21 to go. Only three weeks but they'll be tough ones. I've just been transcribing the first two of my interviews. They were about 40 minutes each and the transcription took an hour for each, which isn't bad. I'm going with partial transcription of the key points and the dictation machine is a major timesaver. Once it's up and running you just need to press the right foot pedal to play the tape back, and after pausing it automatically rewinds and plays back the last few seconds before you stopped which makes it very natural and easy to continue the thread. The only problem, sitting here at 4.30am doing this, is that my feet have to poke out the bottom of the slanket to operate the foot pedals and I've also taken my slippers off so that I can feel the pedals properly so they're FREEZING!
The last couple of weeks have been absolutely non-stop 18 hour days. I've taken to falling asleep on the sofa about 7pm and then trying to get to bed with the kids at 8pm. Last night I fell asleep on the bed with Louis and woke up about ten minutes later to find him looking at me, wide awake, probably wondering why I'm such a lighweight!
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