My life, this newsletter, etc.

I've been busy

While I haven’t been posting here, my own platform, my subscriber numbers are somehow up and booming. Knowing that people actively sign up to read what I write is quite the thought, given usually I don’t even read my own work. However, I still greatly appreciate it.

Since I’m here, I figured I’d update you all with what I’m doing, what I’m working on, when I may (or may not) ever post again, and all that stuff.

Most of you probably know this but currently I’m working on Year 1 of my master’s degree at Johns Hopkins. Specifically, I’m pursuing a Master’s of Health Administration, or in other words trying my best to add to the administrative gloat that plagues our healthcare system.

I’m also doing some cool stuff! I’m a Graduate Research Assistant at the JHU Center for Digital Health and AI. I also on the side sling pre-batched cocktails at a Total Wine in Laurel, Maryland every Friday night if you want to stop by.

Next year I’ll be spending a year as an administrative resident at a hospital to be named later, and then I’ll back into the blissfully horrible realities of the working world.

I still write too, sometimes.

With school and work the commissions have slowed, but in 2022 I was honored to be published in Tablet Magazine, The Columbus Jewish News, and The Rooster. If those are the peak of my meager journalism career it’ll have been more than I ever expected.

There is some stuff in the works too. A narrative of how I fooled a US Senate candidate (you can guess which one) into thinking I was a crazy right-wing preacher from rural Ohio and ended up drunk on Facetime with him while he was at Mar-a-Lago is a personal favorite.

I also recently sold a new magazine article on Columbus Jewish community, with a deadline of next month that should be out sometime around the late-March timeframe.

Outside of that I don’t have a whole lot in the tank. I pitched half the sports websites in this country on this grandiose vision of an American Handball longform and had no takers. Shocking.

Oh hey I guess I should talk about politics.

I still hate Mayor Ginther, elected Republicans, the Columbus City Council, any and all scabs, and a variety of other evil entities. They’re tough to write about though because of the repetitive nature. There’s only so many times you can call they Mayor a fascist pig before it starts to get old.

As far as this platform I think I’ll write a few newsletters coming up, mostly expanding on some tweets of mine and some takes I have.

Feel free to let me know via email or comment if there’s any specific topic you’d like me to spew hot air about on here, I’m always on the lookout for a good story.

Thank you all for the continued support, it doesn’t go unnoticed!