<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>25:27 pete grace good morning peter grace it's rob horrocks here gidday mate <{><[>how are you been talking about you <[>laughs oh behind my back i see oh right <.>how <{><[>how is it going there <[>yeah oh i'm pretty good <{><[>pretty good <[>where are you calling from um i'm actually at varsity um <.>m <.>m <.>m <.>m <.>m <.>mm don't <.>be don't be strange but this is <.>recording this is being recorded i'm just <.>using using the linguistics phone oh yeah oh <{><[>no worries <[>word yeah robbie and it took <.>me it took me an entire twenty minutes to enrol i'm impressed yeah it took me probably it'd be about the same time <{><[>right <[>yeah i walked and they just went right right yeah there go <{><[>i <.>just sweet <[>robbie a quick favour while it's on my <{><[>mind can you grab a couple of copies of <.>th the latest <&>26:00 salient while you're there <[>yes sure good man and um how is it going there oh REALLY really good you know i'm <.>pretty pretty tired er i just basically leapt off the <.>bus went on the overnight bus yeah yeah course um <.>we we left fifteen minutes late because this um voc completely stoned woman er tried to get on the bus oh and um and <.>the the bus driver then <.>w went and tried to get the police but <.>this this guy from the back of the bus went oh walked up to her and said um oh look why don't we go and get something to eat and he took her off the bus she went with him and so <,> <{><[>well yeah so he came back and we left <[>and he came back? good CALL laughs and then um about er <,> mm twenty minutes out of hamilton the bloody bus broke down you're kidding so we spent an hour on the side of the road then had to swap buses <{><[>and in the end i got in at about er oh ten <.>to ten to eight <,> so it's been <.>a it's been a hell night <[>pain robbie laughs yes it's good to hear from you laughs hey what are you doing next week i've got a friend that would like to meet you aha um i'll spell out what's <&>27:00 <.>happeni oh can you talk or <{><[><.>ar are you on a pay phone <[>yeah yeah yeah no no no go for it and this is being recorded yeah yeah yeah okay great how come it's being recorded oh it's the linguistics phone they're doing a little you know little testie sort of type thing <{><[>they're listening to um our <.>m how we talk <[>but i SWORE before i swore i used a four letter word before oh oh no they <.>will they'll beep it out i'm sure don't worry about it okay well this is what's going down i know <.>y you <.>do you're still doing human resources three oh six er no you're not er well i'm not doing any of those er <.>cos <.>i'm i'm doing basically a couple of two hundred level stuff because <.>i've essentially what's happened is i'm into um b c a <{1><[1>but <.>i i've still gotta wait and get um this bloody quan paper <,> so i'm screwing around this year doing quan and a few other interesting things <{2><[2>in the word commerce <[1>oh <[2>oh what papers are you doing off the top of your head without TAXING <{><[>you too much <[>er i'm doing <,> um a couple of physics papers <{><[>quan um <,,> mm a logic paper and something else i can't remember what it is now i'm only doing thirty credits so i'm <&>28:00 <.>act it's actually only a parttime course <[>mm god <{><[>you're going to have a cushy year <[>yeah <.>so yeah yeah it's going to be good well i want to do some akido and <,> various other things and <.>i'll i'll get some parttime work <.>so parttime work yeah well that's another issue what i want to talk to you about oh good um would you like some yes parttime work yes well this is what's happened with me right i've been offered um fifteen hours a week here with the agency throughout the year mhm a week mhm i've also <,,> <.>ap apparently it hasn't happened yet but i might be getting some parttime work doing some market research for a firm down town here oh yeah okay now remember last year i spoke about how that job was going at <.>the at the admin department yeah well i'm pretty sure that's all happening mhm um but it looks like at this stage that i might not be able to take the one up at university right because i just don't think <.>it it'll be regular <.>in like it'll be about six hours a week but if i've got this one for a flat fifteen it would make more sense for me to sort of do this one yeah so i was wondering <,> i'll wait till i definitely get the job at uni yeah and if it looks like the work load's too much with that <,> this job AND <.>the and <&>29:00 <.>the er and the studies three jobs yeah i know it'll <{><[>be a trial <[>well then possibly i could say i know a man his name's rob horrocks and <,> he's a good man and you can have the job that'll be um excellent yeah i thought you'd like that yeah i'd love that oh well i'll see how it goes what i'll do <{><[>i'll probably start at the start with like i say and if it's still too much then so be it <[>yeah yeah <,,> beauty <,> hey <{><[><.>i've <[>i've gotta go yeah can i give you a ring saturday morning beauty at home all right okay mate i'll catch you <{><[>later pete <[>take care bye bye bye <&>29:22