If it makes you feel any better, the new trend is hippies breeding new strains of deadly viruses in their closets:

Everybody has a hobby. Spencer Morgan's hobby is writing profiles of New York's most annoying (or just quirky!) guys in the New York Observer. Neil S.'s hobby is erotic gay hypnotism. Hobby intersection alert!

25-year-old sketch artist Jason Polan has an unachievable goal: to draw every person in New York. He moved here from Michigan, and was seized by the desire to capture all of us—you, me, Graydon Carter—in quick, vague line drawings. So far he has "a couple hundred sketches," which means that, assuming a static city population of 8 million and a generous rate of 50 sketches per day, fives days a week, Jason will be finishing his project up in a little more than 615 years. If you like, you can email him and tell him where you're going to be at a certain time and he'll show up and sketch you. Cute, but not really doing wonders for your time efficiency, Jason. After the jump, a few samples of his work. At least he's quick!