I am so punctually challenged and chronically tardy that the only event I ever showed up to early was my own birth. (No really, I was two weeks early, and it kills me that I can't take any credit for it.) I don't know if lateness is genetic or learned, but it afflicts every one of my family members, and I married into it as well. (I don't think my husband handed in a single paper on time in his entire undergrad or graduate career.)














