(Aus Nick Hornby "About A Boy") "Filling days had never really been a problem for Will. He may not have been proud of his lifelong lack of achievement, but he was proud of his ability to stay afloat in the enormous ocean of time he had at his disposal; a less resourceful man, he felt, might have gone under and drowned. [...] His way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time, each 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, wathing Home and Away and Countdown, doing a quik crossword on the toilet, eating breakfast 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 neccesities. In fact, he had reached a stage where he wondered how his friends could juggle life and a job. Life took up so much time, so how could one work and, say, take a bath on the same day?"