<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:10 i got out of bed because people kept ringing up oh who rang <.>nothing no one for you well you know and how long did it take you about <,,> less than three hours just under three hours oh good but i haven't done downstairs no but you <.>can you can do <.>that you can do that tomorrow if you <{><[>like i mean you <.>must <.>you what time are you taking thomas to <.>s <[>okay tomorrow morning i'm not taking <{><[>thomas to school <,,> i'm going over to brooklyn <[>school yeah but aren't you going to pick up those crates that thomas had at school in the afternoon about three oclock ten past three oh <,,> um <,> yeah i was just thinking if you actually lived at HOME if you were a student at vic you could actually do it couldn't you i mean it would be quite good flatting here yeah <&>1:00 well missus wilkins said i could do it over there i mean every <{><[>week but <.>they they wanted me to do it every week <[>yeah pity in some ways isn't it because it's quite good money mm do you think thomas would do it they <.>wouldn't they wouldn't want thomas mm it's not like they NEED someone it's just they're just doing it as a favour because susannah's a mate yeah <,,> not like they need <{><[>anyone <[>i've OCCASIONALLY thought that you could actually do some work for kelvin and sharon but <{><[>i'm not <.>sure <[>but <.>they i should just do it for them for free yeah tricky isn't it and also you don't want to sort of overstep their privacy like no there's things about probably kelvin's bathroom and that that they don't really WANT people <.>to i don't know but <,> i just feel <.>that <,> i mean i help them when i'm there mm i always do dishes and stuff like that and try and help cooking if they let me mm i don't think there's REALLY a lot i could do there i would <.>never i wouldn't want to ask them for money anyway no i know they haven't got a lot to throw around right <&>2:00 whereas missus wilkins has got a fair bit <{><[>word <[>do <.>they they must <.>have they have a student job search <{><[>at otago <[>in the <.>un yeah but i'm going to be working in the kitchen <,,> hopefully play schmaltzy piano oh yes of course i'll have a bit of baby sitting for joy robinson maybe <,,> and what was the other thing the <.>DRY and the drycleaning lady <,,> oh did i tell you that no well knox has a drycleaning agency tut it's a drycleaning agency and it's usually a second year girl does it and it was going to be this girl gerry but she's decided to go flatting <{><[>and you get a CUT you see you get you get really cheap drycleaning and then you get <.>a a profit for being the agency cos how do you think drycleaning agencies operate the ones in town like dentice i mean the actual little agencies like kelburn <,> drycleaning agency at the <.>v at the video shop they get a CUT that's why they do it so i get a CUT laughs <[>oh terrific oh that's terrific and i don't do <.>any <{1><[1>all you have to do they pick it up and deliver it all you have to do is have it ready for them when they want to <&>3:00 pick it up and pick it up and get it afterwards and take people's money off them oh and you ring up with the orders you ring up and you go this is agent four seven two nine <.>and and do all these codes and things and sound like a spy and you get money for it <{2><[2>so hopefully no one else has claimed that because i sort of said to the person that i'd be quite keen to do it and they said okay but then normally <,,> voc laughs um <[1>oh tut <[2>oh it's terrific sounds like crackers sounds like an explosion <,> um <,> normally the room mate of the person like gerry was rooming with janet <,> and now gerry's going flatting and janet's rooming with another girl but janet might still want to do it i don't <{><[>know <[>oh i see but i've said that i want to do it and no one's said <.>oh <.>well but janet's doing it so hopefully i'll get that but i might not but it'd be really good to have it because at <.>balls for balls everyone gets their clothes drycleaned just straight after the ball so you get this great big amounts of money terrific i don't think you make much but it's not really <&>4:00 any work either inhales <{><[>voc <[>what about the flower thing oh the flower thing yeah how often will that happen balls but how often is that <{1><[1>laughs balls <{2><[2>laughs <[1>laughs <[2>balls holmes um <,> that is <&>sighs knox ball APRIL full ball in april the med ball in JUNE and the <,,> the winter ball in july three balls <,> would be all that we'd bother doing it for <{><[>those are the ones that word <[>voc clears throat how much did robert make he made enough to cover him going to <.>the to each ball basically sixty dollars a time oh i see <{1><[1>does it cost SIXTY dollars for a ball <{2><[2>ticket <[1>but <.>also <[2>for a single ball ticket <{><[>yeah yeah <[>a single <,,> WHY well you usually get open bar and food oh open bar and that's um <.>that's <.>i open bars are tricky because it's almost means <.>you <{><[>you might as well drink as much as you possibly can <[>you've got to <.>drink <,> but the thing if you have an open BAR they gave you really <.>w really badly watered down drinks <&>5:00 do they <,> oh like um what do YOU drink voc <{><[>at those things <[>i drink lots of things because you know it's bad to MIX different i mix <{><[>laughs <[>do you no i don't usually mix i don't know i mean i'll drink <,,> i suppose spirits mainly <,> old people's drinks argh alcoholics' drinks i'm sensible <,,><&>3 yeah so do you just ask for GIN and something brandy and ginger do you laughs like my mother <{><[>or gin lime and lemonade <[>word <.>i <{><[>I think that people should get two drinks free for the evening and then have to pay through the nose for the rest of them and then people might have two drinks <[>vodka lime and lemonade vodka and orange no well no one drives <{><[>i mean that's the good thing about it NO ONE is driving <[>no that's right yes no one? no one everyone gets taxis <&>6:00 oh that's <{><[>good <[>that's i mean if you're having a ball you don't really drive to a ball you get um and for the one at larnach castle you get buses often they have bus services on you have either buses or <.>tak or you all get taxis mm <{><[><.>who who does the organisation for the knox ball <[>no one really drives i'm sure a couple of people drive but then they wouldn't drink the um social work on the exec so that's ANN no ann's not the social work she'd be a disaster right ann's cultural affairs which means you organise a garden party which means NOTHING basically cultural affairs is what they put the person who's not going to do any work on so they put ann on there she sort of suits it though cos ann <.>doesn't like everyone thinks that ann organised the ski trip but her PARENTS organised the WHOLE THING it's true everyone thinks she's an awesome organiser and that's why she got the job on exec but she <.>doe she CAN'T organise ANYTHING at all i mean she's a real mess you know she's REALLY NICE and she's really lovely but she's a TOTAL MESS totally <&>7:00 disorganised and messy <.>and <.>and so i mean it's just she needs to be on a job like that where she doesn't have to do anything mm tut but she can help out the other people and then <{><[><.>they <[>cultural affairs sounds as though it's sort of drama and music <{><[>and that sort of thing <[>oh well you have <.>the there's a spring concert that you do with the <.>other with the LAST year's cultural affairs person cos that was last term and so that was when they've got the <.>c sort of crossover <,,> <{><[>and what you do for that is compere the concert i think <[>oh i see so did ann do that yeah was she good at that she was FUNNY cos um i think she'd been drinking <,> and she was sitting there in a tiny little dress um and basically making eyes at every male in the audience and <,> being <.>a like that oh right she was funny has she got <.>a has she got a boyfriend i mean anyone in particular no <,,> i liked her she's nice she's a REALLY nice person <,,> she's just um how did she go in her exam she got an a minus for law oh that's good isn't it <&>8:00 yeah so she's straight into law but i don't know what she did in everything else <.>she she passed everything else she didn't say what she got hey you know how knox won't take people back if they fail yeah did anyone fail yes but she's not coming back but they would have taken her back anyway cos <.>she's <,> she worked really hard and she's nice <{1><[1>she <.>was ella wright she was head girl of um <,,> southland girls <{2><[2><,,> and um yeah well she's had a few problems <.>with <,> she's a nice girl though she's <.>g really cool <,> she seems to have just passed two papers or something it's really quite sad it's not like she doesn't work very <.>mu i mean she doesn't do much work but she got really stressed at exam time and that didn't <{3><[3>help at all i bought her one of those little jelly balls that you throw at the wall and they go <&>makes slurping noise and stick to the wall and then they go <.>back get back into a ball and roll down the wall have you seen them <[1>mm <[2>tough on HER though <[3>did she no <&>9:00 oh i had one but i LOST it at the end of the year so i couldn't bring it home but <.>they they're about four dollars and you buy them in toy shops and <.>they they feel like JELLY like they feel like you <.>can you can <.>make put them into different shapes that just go straight back to a ball <,> <.>and so they <.>don't like they're JELLY and you can throw them at a wall and they go in this great big thing about this big mm why i mean <.>what i mean <.>wh how do <{><[><.>they <[>it's the stuff they're made out of it's <{><[>some chemical or something <[>is it sort of like plastic sort of <,> plastic jelly stuff and it's um you know that stuff that um tut oh <,> sandra zammet had in london and you <.>s that's totally different <{><[>that's a spray <[>is it oh YEAH but i mean that <.>was that was a peculiar substance <{><[>wasn't it <[>yeah <.>it it's not like that <.>it's it just looks like you know you get those bouncy balls that are see through and have <{><[>stars in the middle <[>mm mm and they're VERY VERY pingy very <{><[><,> bouncy <[>yeah but it looks exactly like that <{1><[1>only the material's different so that if you touch it it <.>feels feels all sticky so it feels like if you're holding it it <.>you'd it'd stick to you but it doesn't stick at all <,,> quite strange <&>10:00 does stick a little bit to you <.>but but then you take your hand off it and your hand hasn't got anything on it's totally clean <{2><[2>so it's totally it goes it goes back into itself you'd think that it would get all messy but it doesn't and you throw it at the wall and it like goes kersplat on the wall and looks almost flat depending on how hard you can <{3><[3>throw it and um and then it gradually just goes sort of <,,> like terminator two where the faces melt <{4><[4>and it just slowly goes into a ball and then it ROLLS itself down the wall and just lands on the floor so i bought her one of those because they're really good for stress relief and you just <{5><[5>throw them at a wall so i bought her one of those as a <.>s <.>an an exam time stress reliever and that's what i sent jean for her birthday as well <[1>oh <[2>mm <[3>laughs <[4>laughs i haven't seen terminator two <[5>word perhaps i <.>need probably ought to buy ME one <&>10:40