Diary of a Mad Court Reporter

Dear Diary: Traveling to Ontario last Monday was so refreshing. Waking up at 6, getting ready, leaving out the door by 7:30, driving in the cool 60-degree morning with the sun shining bright, I knew that my 9:00 deposition was going to be great. I arrive at 8:30 at the Holiday Inn Lewis conference room and realize we are sitting poolside... ahhhhhh... so refreshing. With a few technical difficulties with the speaker phone for the insurance adjuster who was listening from the telephone, we got started at 9:30. Maybe I'd been gazing out at the pool a little too long because before you know it, it's 12:00, lunchtime! Wow, this day is going so fantastic. I'm at 120 pages and we have no end of finishing today -- oh, well. It's a pretty good job for the most part. 3:00, man, I'm so dang tired, I wish this witness would just answer these questions. We could have been done by now. 5:00 and 260 pages, are you kidding me? We aren't even done? COME ON. Have to reschedule for Volume III.
Dear Diary: I'm not very happy today as I have to go back to Ontario to do Volume III of this crazy lady. All I can think about is $$$$$$$$$$$$. Ahhh, that helps. 9:00 we start. Oh, that's right, how can I forget, this lady won't answer the question in just a yes/no format she has to talk for 3 pages and then say yes or no. 9:30 I'm rotating my chair away from this crazy lady and have to zone out onto the pool. Ahhhhh, that's better...... 11:00, 100 pages in. Are you serious? How can you think your daughter climbed into your crawl space and was watching you at night and then coming into your apartment and steeling your stuff? Are you for real? Seriously, you think that your daughter has tapped your cell phone and listening to your conversations because you can hear an echo and then the call disconnects? Come on lunchtime...12:30 lunchtime... 1:50 lunchtime over already, what? I have to go back to work? 2:00 is it break time yet? 2:30 break time boss? 3:30, 210 pages in. I want to go tie my machine around my waist and jump into the pool and sink... make these voices in my head stop (oh, that's right, they're not in my head they are coming through my ears and into my brain and won't stop.) 4:30, we are not going to finish today. 5:15, 270 pages... not done yet. Volume 4 to be scheduled.