Kyung's Blog – July 2009 Archive (4)

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I took Volume II of a depo. Volume I was taken by a completely different reporter. I am a 5'2 Korean woman. The reporter for Volume I, the day before, was a tall, blonde white woman.



At the start of the depo, the attorney turned to me and asked me to read the last question from the day before.



I just looked at him for a second. I was so amazed my mind actually went blank. I reminded him that I wasn't the reporter from the day before.



I know we're… Continue

Added by Kyung on July 29, 2009 at 9:09 — 4 Comments

Things you wish you could say during a depo

Feel free to talk over each all you want, I'm not listening.



I write at 225 wpm, I will drop all words starting at the 226th word and on for those minutes you choose to speak at 300 wpm.



Do you think the room has been struck deaf. We can all hear you whispering really loudly to your client and chances are that counsel can hear you instructing your client and I can hear you. Take it outside if you don't want it on the record.



Why do you think I am a lip reader… Continue

Added by Kyung on July 29, 2009 at 9:03 — 19 Comments

Pandora has started charging

I am absolutely bummed. I wrote a long while back about Pandora, which is an online music service where you can listen to music while you're proofing. It used to be all free. And I discovered a lot of new music.



Well, they've started charging. You get 40 hours free, and then they charge. You can pay $36 for the year, which is not much. But it's like paying for radio, I rebel.



Today I listened to Yahoo… Continue

Added by Kyung on July 27, 2009 at 17:04 — No Comments

Parking aggravation

We started at 9:30 and went to 6:55, which is a very long day for me. Bec. I have to leave my house at 7 a.m. to make it to downtown L.A.



Then I parked in the Los Angeles Mall, which closes at 6 p.m. This is before I found out the attorney was planning on going past 6 p.m. So I had to pre-pay my parking and tape the parking receipt to the inside windshield of my car so they wouldn't tow it. Then after we were done for the day, which if we ended at 6:55, I didn't get packed up for… Continue

Added by Kyung on July 1, 2009 at 6:12 — 10 Comments

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