<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:45 mm oh well not too much longer now anyway no this is right yeah <{><[>yeah <[>mm mm so that's good yeah and any replacement for you in sight yeah it looks like she's um said yes but not signed along the dotted line so <&>3:00 oh another she huh yes unfortunately <{><[>for her <[>why unfortunately for her well that's the problem the problem i have is <,> that very thing yeah in that he is so hopeless at dealing with women so inhales i mean he has a problem with dealing with women you know uh huh mm well that's a bit difficult mm mm however so your social life is suffering well it is because i keep going all the way up there and then you can't really do anything you know there's no popping around to visit somebody in the evening <{1><[1>laughs it's a bloody major trek <{2><[2>word <[1>laughs <[2>oh i'm thinking <.>of there's a composer judy mcgill lives out there oh does she yeah she's a bit of a recluse though yeah you sort of have to be laughs <{><[>to survive <[>laughs yes well <.>for <.>in in order for it to um fit <.>you fit <.>your it's actually interesting really it's a good exercise for me to go through because one of the ideas i had about living in christchurch was that i could live inhales at lyttelton or out in the countryside somewhere <,> WE could yeah and um i actually don't like it i prefer to be right in the city yes yeah it's all right for a holiday isn't it it's quite nice for a holiday mm <&>4:00 nice for a weekend but but not as <.>a no no not as a living option i feel no oh well that's good that you've sorted it <{><[>out this word <[>it is actually very good that i've sorted it out you're right yeah yep and anything looming in christchurch no bit concerned actually <{1><[1>going through a day of concern <{2><[2>hobson <[1><.>th <[2>that other possibility didn't eventuate well no it hasn't nothing's come of it yet but it might do the job you mean yeah yeah no <,> it might do <,> i hope it does both laugh yes i hope it does yes oh well oh you might have to be there to make the connections that's right that's right fear not fear not i've actually got a meeting this weekend with lyn wall lyn wall she's at <.>cent er the southern regional arts council she's a friend of fran's er yeah and um <,> i've got a meeting with her if you want to find out about the um gossip to do with the arts centre and right israc and er cos <{><[>regional <.>council's <[>capital ballet and i want to know all about <.>the the southern ballet no longer <&>5:00 oh no it might be yeah it might be a new form developing yes i should probably talk <.>to i've got two <.>contacts vague contacts for the southern ballet two new board members oh um <.>they they approached <{><[>me <[>i'm really NOT that interested i must <{><[>admit <[>no i wouldn't have thought i think you were <.>a opening a can of worms with that yes <.>but and you know the regional councils are very likely to be dissolved the arts councils <.>regional really yes oh yes <.>they <{1><[1>oh dear little one has just broken the t v <{2><[2>laughs <[1>okay <[2>broken it not the screen the door that <.>go opens the controls taken it off she's taken it <.>o oh i didn't know it could come off maybe it can't <{1><[1>laughs maybe it wouldn't <{2><[2>word <[1>oh dear <[2>she's trying to put it back on this is very funny laughs <{1><[1>laughs oh it's all right <{2><[2>we'll cope er today andrew locked a <.>key broke a key inside a filing cabinet <[1>oh dear <[2>laughs yes oh no it was locked so he can no <.>longer and the key's broken off in it's a new <.>o well it's not a new one it's one we have acquired oh dear that's no good <&>6:00 inhales yeah yes well the regional councils are probably going to be abolished so i wouldn't get involved with them no i won't get involved WITH them but i just want to find <.>out it's a good place to find out the gossip yeah apparently lyn's quite good at gossip <,> so yeah and there's another woman i know down there and i can't remember her name i'm dreadful she's in the regional <{><[>councils too <[>you're as bad as fran fran was having the same problem yesterday she couldn't remember anybody's name oh i'm just <{><[>exhausted <[>it's a terrible terrible thing to say that you're as bad as fran i'm sorry about that i didn't mean that both laugh i'm just exhausted my brain is not functioning <{><[><.>very very well <[>no no and <.>is how how's the little one sleeping at night is she <{><[>word straight through <[>oh no she hasn't the past three nights she <.>wa did three nights in a row yeah and then she's been waking sort of at four thirty and andrew's been going in but <.>i i wake up with it too oh and last night she sort of got the message and didn't cry very long he only went in twice <.>but <{><[>mm i <.>still <.>why i don't know why i'm waking up because <.>i i wasn't the week before <[>mm yeah and she's yeah got a bit backwards there yeah yeah and now she's looking at me rather guilty both laugh yeah that's quite funny quite <{1><[1>sweet yeah <{2><[2>we've just had a call from er before from <,> tom rodgers <&>7:00 <[1>yeah <[2>poor little girl oh yes so i might get some sound stuff down through him <,> <{><[>yeah <[><.>what why did he call you <,> did you ask him to ah no FRAN had <{><[>got him to <[>oh oh that's <{><[>okay <[><.>he's yeah he's a NICE boy tom isn't he he's a darling yeah he's an absolute darling yeah see the other little <.>pr problem i'm having is this awful terrible kind of inhales worry that i'm going to miss <.>evr every body to the point of COMPLETE LONELINESS <&>sighs you know laughs well it might be like that for a little while yeah i'm really <{><[>scared but um <[>laughs you won't be able to afford to come up will you no laughs oh dear maybe you should get a travelling job laughs well there is a bit of travelling with the south power but um <,> oh god it just fills me with terror oh mm yes well you did it voc several years ago <{><[>you know <[>i KNOW but i did it when i was a LOT younger and i did it to go to a job and it seemed to me that the <.>key like mum moved to auckland when she was thirty two inhales and it seems that the key to when she started enjoying things was <&>8:00 when she started working at takapuna grammar inhales and i think working is the key you know you MEET people and <{><[>try and make your own friends and acquaintances through work <[>yeah yes yes that's true mm you've already i mean <{><[>you'll find something i mean <.>i i can't imagine YOU being unemployed it just won't happen <[>voc well i don't know it's going to happen in two weeks time <{><[>but i'll be calling it a holiday <[>yeah but <.>not but not yes well give yourself a holiday for a month and yeah <{><[>yeah <[>make contacts and <,> and do all the tourist industry down there mm yeah i'm just having a <.>we weeny bit of scared <.>m <{><[>people <[>yes yes you get that yes i think fear is actually part of what makes it work too in the end yeah <.>quite quite understandable mm yeah <{><[>oh dear <[>laughs so you should be in other words <{><[>laughs <[><.>yes oh dear <,> and how's james <.>he's he's good he's very good he's very good sorry somebody was voc walking past and i suddenly thought i ought to sound a lot less like i'm having a social call yes <{><[>yes <[>um no he's very good very good <&>9:00 indeed <.>we <,> yes <.>i i offended him earlier today on the screen by <,> telling him i didn't want to live somewhere suburban like saint albans which is where he lives laughs so um so that was a little <.>bit a little bit difficult <{><[>but apart from that mm <[>laughs there's some interesting apartments in the <.>a arts centre itself yes there ARE <,> INDEED i would LIKE to find out about that actually i <{><[>said i wanted to <.>live live centrally <[><.>that's that's where i went to visit one of these guys who's <.>th one of the on the new or was i don't know if he still is on the board of um southern ballet <{><[>he's actually a designer and he's got his offices there as well and lives there <,> <[>mm yeah it'd be a VERY noisy place to live though <,> with all the activity oh it would well probably <.>n probably not so bad now cos they've moved the <{><[>crafts centre along <[>they're also stone though too aren't they and i mean that would <.>absorb that voc must absorb a fair amount of noise <&>9:37