LAUREN OLSON

My New Passion Project...

Sometimes (Most The Time) I Really Hate Working In Times Square.

New Yorkers Predictably Pissed Off About Being Labeled Unhappy

katespencer:

“Maybe you should look into preventing, like, the next swine flu or something, instead of spending your resources getting all up in people’s business and, like, making judgments about how some people have chosen to live in tiny ridiculously expensive apartments and to spend their days surrounded by a bunch of fellow strivers with delusions of grandeur, working and competing and worrying, all to have access to, what, good imported cheese and see bands, when they could have just settled down in a nice suburban McMansion and married an electrician or gotten a normal nine-to-five job, one that doesn’t mess with their psyche or like define them as a person, and spent their evenings not thinking about work but maybe playing Scrabble, perhaps with six to eight affordable suburban children?”

God I am so happy I live in New York.

It’s impossible to explain to Minnesotans why I love my life in NY so much. That quote helps.

My Shark Tale

Six months later, I’ve discovered that my shark adventure back in May was published in Alaska.