No, the evenings were OK; it was the days that tested his patince and ingenuity...
His way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time, each unit consisting of about thirty minutes. Whole hours, he found, were more intimidating, and most things one could do in a day took half an hour. Reading the paper, having a bath, tidying the flat, watching Home and away and Countdown, doing a quick crossword on the toilet, eating brakfast and lunch, going to the local shops...That was nine units of a twenty-unit day (the evenings didn't count) filled by just the basic necessities. In fact, he had reached a stage where he wondered how his friends could juggle life and a job. Life took so much time, so how could one work and, say, take a bath on the same day? He suspected that one or two people he knew were making some pretty unsavoury short cuts.
from About a boy
Nick Hornby
PS: SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
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