So what's an extra lap or two around the steno pool for us?

那就额外给我们来两份？

It's called steno. It's basically a phonetic series of syllables.

这是速记法，这是基本的语音连续记号。

Stoked on cup after cup of tea (I drank it by the gallon when I wrote … unless I was drinking beer, that is) , I filled sixteen pages of a steno notebook.

我一边写，一边一杯接一杯地往肚里灌茶水（我写作的时候常一加仑一加仑地喝茶… … 当初喝啤酒的时候除外），我在一个小笔记本上写了整整十六页。