Shorthand

I'm still in it!

It seems nobody can get a way round it. How can you? Interviewing people on the phone, reporting on a council meeting, dashing to the crime scene to get a quote from the police and witnesses...everywhere you just need it, or you find yourself in the middle of the embarrassment madness - oh gosh, why can't I get it all down?!

Then you realise you really have to work your hardest to get your speed up to standard. No matter how old-fashion you think the system is, or how the thing's cracking your nerve, you're clear more than anyone else that getting 100 words per minute is just on top of your agenda.

You start even surprising yourself, you find whenever you listen to radio or watch TV, whenever you read newspapers, you're just trying to work out their outlines and just trying to get them all done in shorthand!