Scripting Graduations

I'm scheduled to cover three graduations, starting with two tomorrow. I got scripts for two of them. I've never used a script before. I saw someone use one once, and they told me a few things. I also watched the two-hour AccuCap training video, so I at least saw what's possible there, although nothing really stuck concretely since it wasn't relevant to me at the time. I spent about five or six hours formatting the first script. It took me forever just to figure out how to name segments using script commands.

I also learned that copying and pasting from Word is not a good idea, after I had already edited the entire script. I had to go back through and take out all these weird little places where the tabs in Word didn't show up in the script, but when I pushed them through realtime, they were making this weird arrow. I had to look up how to format songs, because at one graduation they're playing the National Anthem, and at both they're going to sing the Alma Mater.

I had to put tons of professor names in my dictionary, and text global all kinds of stuff to make sure it's going to come out capitalized properly even if I don't have time to do it manually.  I put a little note to myself in the spaces where someone is likely to talk and it's not scripted, so I'll have a little bit of a head's up that I need to start writing. My biggest worry right now about the whole deal is that I'm going to accidentally send out one of those notes!

I don't have a script yet for the first graduation, and it's at 1:30 tomorrow. If I have to just write it live, at least I kind of know the process since I've read the scripts for the other two.

I was able to use a cool shortcut I saw on the Eclipse FB group to help me out with scripting. I tested out how I'm going to arrange everything on the actual day, and it was tough fitting all the windows in, so I got rid of the notes display with Ctrl+Shift+F5, which was a huge help.

8.8

     Lots of things have happened since I updated last.  I got a new job, which I like lot better, and that kind of takes the pressure off of getting done with "school" as soon as possible.  My boyfriend of six years broke up with me a week ago, but I didn’t take a single second off from homework.  I think it actually helped me focus a little bit.  I also didn’t care about much of anything for a few days, so I wasn’t stressed out about trying to get everything perfect when I was writing.

     I got the 2 minutes together that I was working on last Saturday, at 97.8% accuracy, and 250 wpm at the end.  I was also going at 250 wpm when I got the next minute last Wednesday (I just barely got it – 95.01% accuracy). That one only went so quickly because it was at about 210 wpm, though.  Now all I have left to finish the piece is the last 2 minutes together!

     Unfortunately, because of scheduling with my new job, I had to take 2 days off in a row.  I used to take a day off once a week, and I haven’t been doing that for about seven months.  Now I get to go back to it, which is great, but this particular set of weeks, the days had to be next to each other, and that didn’t help at all.

     I feel like I spend 95% of my practice time writing in a position where I can’t properly reach the keys, and then, that one magical moment when I manage to get in the right position is when I get my minutes.  I guess I’ll figure it out eventually.  I discovered that slog, spake, and slub weren’t in my dictionary.  I also got "boric flay" out of trying to write "work and play," which was interesting.