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by EMILY DEAN
I’vealways longed to know what it must feel like to be on time. To reside in Earlytown rather than Latesville.
People who manage to arrive ahead of schedule genuinely feel like another species to me. The Captain Kirks to my bewildered alien asking, ‘What is this strange thing you humans call “punctual?”’
Over the years, I’ve had all sorts of timemanagement advice thrown my way, from the encouraging, ‘maybe set a timer for tasks?’ to the slightly less forgiving, ‘for God’s sake, just leave early for once’. But the world of the prompt remains a foreign country to me. As my old teacher once reflected, ‘I think, perhaps, Emily, you just inhabit an entirely different time zone.’