hi! if you're reading this, you must (maybe?) know who I am, bc you likely wouldn't have gotten a link to this otherwise.
anyway— my name is Cam. i'm a newly minted 25, liver in and lover of Chicago, journalist by trade, trivia wonk by practice, often with too many thoughts bouncing in my head. ergo, junk drawer.
i think the junk drawer is an interesting concept, and as a perfectionist, it just intrigues me further. we have a space that, no matter where we are, always ends up occurring in some capacity. it might be a chair, or a desk corner, or a physical actual drawer, or a downloads folder, or a notes app list or a glove compartment. but it always exists, and try as we might to organize it— buying bags of containers in bursts at Target, perhaps— it will come back. and it'll be there.
and there are really two strategies: fight the junk drawer with the $5 Target containers, or accept the junk drawer. make peace with the junk drawer. let it be what it wants to be— what it's designed to be; let it be the junk drawer. we need miscellany in our lives. the miscellany has to go somewhere.
i don't quite know what this newsletter will be. but i've realized as i work on project after project that i need an outlet for the loose ends. and social media isn't quite cutting it for me anymore, or at least not as much as it used to. so the goal will be maintaining my digital junk drawer, a la what I'd publish on, say, twitter.
i don't know how frequently this will publish. i am not sure whether it'll actually be sustained. but a place to put fun datasets, old maps, dog photos, recipes being workshopped, programming workarounds, latest foia returns, rom-com recommendations, etc etc, feels like a good start.
anyway, here’s the dog:
cheers!
cam