Ah, the joys of dealing with people and their quirks it's the one aspect of work that no one ever tells you about or prepares you for in life
Some reports say that hot showers seem to help
No need for anything else
George Orwell reminds us that a few years earlier, before the war, people could buy 200 cigarettes for the same price, but: all prices are now inflated, including the price of books: still, it looks as though the cost of reading, even if you buy books instead of borrowing them and take in a fairly large number of periodicals, does not amount to more than the combined cost of smoking and drinking. I neither smoke nor drink, but found George Orwells choice of comparison significant
A few months into the program, she put her doctorate on hold, traded her Oxford apartment for a London squat, and became the general manager of a fledging organization called the AIDS Treatment Project