INTERVIEWER: So Lily, now that we’ve heard about your work, the listeners  would like to know something about your life outside work. Tell us about what you  do on the weekends – when you get up, what you have for breakfast, what you do for fun, things like that.

LILY:  Well, I get up very early, around five o’clock, because….

INTERVIEWER: Five o’clock!? That is early! Even on weekends?! Do you do that  often?

LILY:  Oh yes, nearly every weekend. I never sleep late. That is just too much to do. I hate waking up late. Even on weekends. And then I sometimes go for a long swim  in my pool. When I don’t go for a swim, I go for a run. Exercise is very important to me.

INTERVIEWER: At five in the morning you go for a run?!

LILY:  Yes, sometimes, or as I said, I sometimes go for a swim.

INTERVIEWER: OK…and then?

LILY:  Well, then I have breakfast and after breakfast I get down to work.

INTERVIEWER: Oh, you work on the weekend, too?

LILY:  Oh yes, I always work on the weekends.

INTERVIEWER:  But don’t you ever relax?

LILY:  Relax?

INTERVIEWER: You know, you take a day off and have a good time, enjoy yourself? Go to a museum or to the park or something?

LILY:  To the park? Oh no, I never go to the park. But enjoy myself at work. I always enjoy myself at work.

INTERVIEWER: Well, OK. Thank you, Lily Tarkis. It has been very interesting  hearing about your work and your, uh, your, uh, your work. And now for a word from…