6.00 wake up, shower, etc.
6.30 leave for work
7.00 work (**stress, meetings, more meetings, speeches, presentations, deadlines, loneliness**)
…
7.00 leave work
7.30 come home to empty house, exhausted; eat, worry about bills, moving, and school
8.00 fail to actually do anything or go out — too exhausted; turn on tube and browse ‘net
9.00 talk to girlfriend for five awkward minutes
9.05 have a couple of beers and a couple of butts to put it all away
9.30 go to bed
lather, rinse, repeat (while getting ever-deeper into debt and ever-closer to personal deadlines)