<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:40 well mark tell me in no more than two thousand words your life story i don't think it's very interesting i can tell you about today <,,> why why i haven't been in my office all day i'm sure that's fascinating oh well why haven't you been in your office <&>1:00 because um this morning i had to go to the airport at at er <,> to meet the chap off the plane from auckland at eight oclock oh that one <{><[>oh <[>yeah er and then i um because it was such a lovely day i mean it really was a nice day this morning <{1><[1>and i knew that i started work at eight oclock cos that's when i met up with this chap and was bringing him back and so i brought him back a long slow route around the waterfront and up mount victoria and then we looked at everything around and looked at the layout of the city and stuff like that <{2><[2>so i got back here at a quarter past nine having dropped him off <,> at the terrace regency <&>door closes as research assistant leaves room <[1>it was <[2>coughs oh and made sure that he was all right and <{><[>showed him where to go <[>he WAS booked in was he yes so so it wasn't that word <{><[>i mean word made the arrangement <[>yeah no no he got <{><[> yeah he got booked in all right <[>laughs yeah that was right and um so then i came up here <,> and er i did spend half an hour in my office <,> before coming to a wonderfully inspiring <&>2:00 meeting of our management group it was it <{1><[1>it was only two hours <{2><[2>too <[1>voc <[2>it was one of our more inspiring achievements mind you you did all walk out at the end just as i was trying to get one question resolved <{><[>laughs oh about that ad in word but that's all right we've resolved that <[>which is what oh i didn't want to resolve that question and then what what on earth was gonna resolve it at well what happened WHO resolved it voc <&>name of party resolved it by doing what so oh we we're going to do our own thing and <{><[>so <[>with your own punnet our own punnet as it were yes oh yes oh so er okay although funnily enough there is um a reference in the blurb that we were sent about <.>th the the great benefits of the internet so which i think is what probably gave us the idea oh <{><[>yeah <[>initially about so we should actually have <{1><[1>looked at it a bit more seriously i'm sorry about that i <{2><[2>i was sort of feeling a bit tired by then i didn't want to resolve the issue of punnet <[1>think it might get <[2>laughs no well it wasn't it wasn't a great issue it i i was just writing some notes and <&>3:00 looked up and everyone was walking out the door both laugh er so <{1><[1>anyway that was a wonderful inspired er meeting that we had and then and then we had to meet up with this chap no i there was something else i had to do but it was all down here and then we had to meet up with this chap and take him to the staff club for lunch and then um i had to take him down and get <,> the <,> the group down at hunter working with him and thinking through a few issues and resolve things about where we're going for dinner tonight and all that sort of <{2><[2>stuff so er then i had a meeting at three oclock with er with er the new dean of education to discuss her problems she's got a terrible room she's got a little box of a room about <,> about ten foot square i suppose <[1>voc but i'm not defensive <[2>laughs oh and <,> she's working and it's just awful i mean i hadn't realised the accommodation in education was as bad as <{><[>it is <[>oh i think it's fairly basic sort of the rooms <{><[>i've seen yeah <&>4:00 <[>yes but basic is not the word <{><[>actually it's just terrible i said why the hell don't you get yourself a decent room at least you know <,> to work in <[>laughs mm but apparently it's regarded as being politically undesirable in the education service to get yourself a decent room oh so tut so i've just come from there you see <,,> tut not having <,> done anything useful all day really so you see this is why i haven't been in my office yes oh well that's one reason i didn't catch you when when i rang so i'm sorry about that why haven't you been in YOUR office why why were you phoning my office oh just to see if you er were there ah and well when when the phone rang and i didn't answer you concluded i wasn't yes and at the same time i heard you in the corridor so all was revealed right <,,> yeah okay well see i've been talking for my requisite ten minutes <{><[>i've contributed at least a thousand words to the database <,,> <&>5:00 <[>laughs yes well well my day has been much more prosaic <,> i had to <,> i had to go to a travel agent and get my tickets because we had a deluge of relatives in the weekend and i forgot all about them as i as i'm <{><[>going tomorrow this was rather <[>relatives tickets rather urgent cos you're going tomorrow yep mm on on on on another extensive o e not very extensive <{><[>word laughs <[>add that to the database quickly both laugh yeah no no not not very extensive um <.>s actually it'll probably be rather hot where is it sydney sydney mm yeah probably will be never been there in february before no mind you the first time i i'd never been to australia until i was well in my forties and the first time i went was at the end of june and i left here in seven degrees good old wellington june day mm arrived in the er the hottest june day on record in sydney it was twenty six which is <&>6:00 probably not <{><[>bad even for this time of year <[>laughs no no well yeah no twenty six would be pretty nice in sydney this time of year i think i suspect it will <{><[>word <[>yeah it could be not not dressed the way i was mm laughs <{><[>why hadn't you been to australia until your midforties <[>word tut um well opportunities had never presented <{><[>themselves <[>er no there's something something fundamental about about the kiwi character that you'll see the rest of the world before you see australia when i when i er graduated i had an opportunity of of <,> of actually doing a p h d in melbourne oh rather than christchurch and i didn't take it because it was melbourne so when i went overseas i was not going to go to melbourne i was going to go overseas <{><[>you know and and and that <[>yeah yeah i think i think i suspect yeah i <.>was you're probably right in that yeah basic feeling i mean <.>th there's i think kiwis divide into two classes those who who want to see sydney and those who go round the rest of the world but won't see sydney laughs <&>7:00 i actually like sydney <{><[>i i've been back two or three times since voc <[>yeah i think it's a wonderful city yeah anyway yeah yeah so so you're gonna be over there for how long oh about five or five days six days then i'm coming back on the sunday cos i <,> i've got stranded with their <{><[>flights are all full <[>yeah yeah there's it's wonderful the the the the abundance of flights between wellington and sydney mm usually you you either get stranded in the city for an extra day or three or or you come back through auckland or christchurch yeah i could've done that rushing things on friday i just thought oh <{1><[1>may as well if i'm there anyway <{2><[2>i'm a bit desperate eh yeah <[1>mm sniffs <[2>enjoy it oh yeah so you got your tickets yeah got my tickets got here still managed to find a park <,> not too far away that was a an achievement i've found actually there's a very close park i i know a good park that's often often free because it's it's a bit difficult to get into we won't tell kim this <.>w <{><[>will we <[>no i'm not going to tell you it either both laugh but i can often get it <{><[>quite late <[>laughs <&>8:00 laughs sniffs mm right but but i don't <.>even i don't have a university parking sticker you see <{><[>so i i have to go round <.>k <[>oh okay well actually well you see i i i i live fifteen minutes away mm fifteen minutes walk and um i use the car for from here about maybe once a month <{><[>so i end up paying a hundred and eighty bucks for a parking ticket parking right that i use once a month it's ridiculous <[>mm well what we should probably do is um sell you the <.>temp shortterm rights to the <&>name of group park are you as as a means of revenue generation how much substantially less than a hundred and eighty dollars i would hope oh yes yes i mean you know mm ten bucks a time or something oh i see what you mean actually i would willingly pay say um two or three dollars a day for the right to park here mm it's the thought of paying a hundred and eighty dollars for mm <&>9:00 cos that that would actually work out a hundred and eighty dollars or whatever it is works out at about ten dollars a day which i think's a bit steep but well the alternative is that when we start selling parking coupons we can sell you a coupon and you can park out on the street i don't need it <{1><[1>i don't need a coupon to park out on the street cos i've got a kelburn <{2><[2>sticker you see i'm a kelburn <{3><[3>resident <[1><.>o on on a daily basis <[2>oh okay <[3>oh right well even better this this this entitles me to park anywhere <,> that you need a coupon in kelburn mm but not in clifton terrace no oh well it's because i discovered <{><[>to my horror clifton terrace is different from kelburn <[>word mm <,,><&>3 mm tut yes well i don't know if that counts as kelburn does it i suppose it does should do it's west of the motorway it doesn't count as kelburn as far as the parking stickers are concerned no <,> <{><[>nutcase city council isn't it <[>laughs laughs yeah all right there we are <.>y you must have used up your thousand words have you are you keeping track of the time here <&>10:00 no i'm not no how much is left on the tape <,> oh it's going round oh you'd better go on with the rest of your day then rest of <{><[>well the rest of it <[>sounds sounds a dead bore so far yeah oh add that to the database <{><[>word <[>no no it it actually was quite good because it meant that leaving a little later i was able to play a game with my daughter this morning before i took her to school <,> with the result that she missed the bell by a minute but it was worth it play what game oh just a you know one of these twenty questions types of game you play those with your daughter before school oh occasionally well it just fills in time i mean otherwise it who knows might have family arguments or they might get scratchy mm oh well yeah i i <,> i don't have that sort of relationship with my daughter my my my relationship with my daughter in the mornings consists of <.>l largely of yelling and <{><[>throwing things <[>laughs laughs yeah well yes yes this is oh we seem to have got beyond this gradually every now and again she takes me completely by <&>11:00 surprise by being organised and ready to go <,> and and and everything's serene and perfect <,> but um that happens very rarely and takes me very much by surprise <{><[>then <[>no we we have two extremes emily actually gets up early she's the first of our children who ever has aha took us four to get there laughs and she she is does tend to be sort of up and ready for things whereas mona is consistent with the rest of them and so <{1><[1>that's usually um a rather more vociferous relationship <{2><[2>particularly in the morning <[1>oh <[2>mm so who do you <{><[>play twenty questions with <[>voc emily this morning oh yeah yes yeah she she's generally in sort of a bit bit more placid <.>m mona is about a hundred and thirty octane you should have stopped when you found out how it was done well yeah if one could predict the future one might make all sorts of <,> rearrangements <&>12:00 yeah all right yeah so so so you've picked up the tickets today i know you went to the staff club i know you were at a meeting here this morning yes i was yes you're right i was here at a meeting this morning <,> tut i <,> started my day after that <,> finally managed to go and get some lunch at about twenty to two <,> even read a paper <,,> um <,> came back er god knows what i've done since <,,> well there you are you see you've been preparing for this yeah i probably was really mentally yeah preparing myself what do we have to do about to get the mars bars i think just sort of reach that far and pick them up can we do it now <{1><[1>or word do you think somebody's listening <{2><[2>who's going to <[1>yeah mm <[2>the the <.>s the sound effects would be interesting wouldn't they yeah yeah i'm sure we must have done our lot <&>12:59 <&>sound of mars bars being unwrapped for eight seconds <&>13:09 and how do you spell that yes right yes put that into phonetics both laugh translate that for linguists <,> peculiarly WRAPPING sound <,> right so we can we turn this off or is it is it locked laughs voc well i imagine we can turn it off um <,> hasn't got a keyboard though no it's a very low tech device isn't it it's got a power switch it looks a bit like our video <,> i have to get felicity to work that hey i actually did something get this on this this is worth on ANY database I I drove our video last night laughs i did i i looked <.>at looked up where the <&>14:00 programme was on in the <.>pap you know in the paper mm and i picked up the video thingie you know the is this the g code the remote one no no no no no no just the just an ordinary remote and i pushed the appropriate buttons and it ALL worked and i had to set the time and the date from scratch and i set it up and it recorded at exactly the right time and do you know what went wrong cos it you know that something went wrong <{><[>otherwise i wouldn't be telling you this story <.>quite <[>word laughs you got the wrong channel quite pointless if nothing no no no everything was perfect oh no it was silly um the silly er the programme schedule was <{><[>word <[>yeah the <.>p programme schedule was completely screwed up <{><[>the the um it was it was channel two and i was supposed to be recording laughs it's a ken russell <[>yeah oh ken russell horror story and it was supposed to start at five to twelve <,,> and instead the silly rugby sevens went on you know the rugby league sevens mm <&>15:00 went on until twelve thirty so i'd carefully set this thing up now if i'd left it it wouldn't have mattered too much catching half an hour of the silly rugby sevens but i <{><[>didn't know when they finished <[>mm yeah and it was a three hour tape and i didn't know how long went on for <{><[>because ken russell can make some pretty long movies <[>laughs yes laughs and so um i had to take <.>undo it no that's right i couldn't undo the programming cos having programmed the damn thing having got all that set up i couldn't then undo <{><[>the programming <[>yeah that's right you've got to unless you just undo the whole lot and start again i couldn't figure out how to do it i tried that i tried i i i in the end i decided i have to undo the whole lot start again but i couldn't change anything so as far as i know having set it up it still turned itself off at two oclock and there's probably another half an hour of yeah unrecorded <.>a and and the thrilling climax <&>16:00 yes <,,> oh but BUT <.>th the whole point about this is i solved the technology problem i had programmed the video no i solved part of the of cos i couldn't figure out to turn it off i couldn't undo the programming once it had started <{><[>once it started <[>yeah no i've had that problem with our <.>o <.>o original simple one i thought it was just me maybe <{><[>maybe it's the way the japanese make videos <[>yeah no i i submit as far as i'm concerned the um programming video machines makes cobol look a lot better yeah that's true <&>noise right well i was talking to somebody the other day who was complaining that they had episodes one two and four of some serial and the reason they didn't have three was because they were away and had it all set up on the right day mhm but because the cricket was washed out one day they brought that the next day's programmes forward right which seems a crazy way to do it and so they missed and they they brought the next day's programmes <{><[>forward? <[>forward a day from the thursday to the <{><[>wednesday or whatever <[>this must have been t v n z presumably yeah mm <&>17:00 which sounds <.>absolu absolute lunacy laughs oh for sure right okay well we've definitely done enough <{><[>now <[>no no i think that's yes absolutely there must <{><[>be an off switch find an off switch <[>perhaps they don't use <.>m must be an off switch <&>17:12