Hide Your Fun

The onion has a hilarious article that I find more truth than humor in.  The article interviews fictitious Ty Braxton, a temp who lives a better lifestyle than the lawyers who employ him.

“At a job like this, where you’re surrounded by angry, perpetually stressed-out lawyers who are working 80 hours a week, it’s important to hide the fact that you’re enjoying a normal, balanced, happy life,” Braxton said Monday. “People get really pissed when they hear stuff like that.”

A few of my favorite quotes.

“I have so much going on in my life right now,” Braxton said. “I’m helping a friend start up a little Cajun food stand, I’ve gotten way into this Russian poet Mayakovsky, I’ve been hanging out with this really cool girl I met when my band, Sophie Drillteam, did a show with hers. Honestly, I just don’t have the time or energy to put into some job.”

“I stopped talking about movies, because no one here ever goes to them,” Braxton said. “Every time I mention a movie to someone, I have to sit there and listen to them go through the process of figuring out the last movie they saw. The other day, Andrew Walser, this intellectual-property attorney who’s trying to make partner, told me that his last movie was Gladiator. I was like, ‘Oh, man, that’s depressing.’”

During his three to four hours of “down time” each work day, Braxton reads, surfs the web, and e-mails friends. He also works on long-term personal projects. Over the past six weeks, Braxton has translated 41 pages of Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel Dubrovsky for a new English version he dreams of one day publishing.

Read the full article here.