bye lol

No, seriously, real talk.

I got the idea for the first headline walking into the syslab. I typed it in, showed Andrew Hamilton, and he just sighed. At the time, Rejected tjTODAY was just another bad idea, like tearing down the entire school, replacing it with an oil rig, and calling it frackTJ.

I'm glad I stuck this one out.

Thank you to the sysadmins and the fine denizens of #tjhsst@freenode for being my guinea pigs. James (construction headline? I guarantee he wrote it), Grey (probably), Claudia, creffett, and Stephen were all great.

Thank you, Gavin, for being clever and hilarious in ways I'll never be, thank you for always finding time to contribute despite being so f@#!ing swamped, thank you just overall for being a great person to work with and a great person to call a friend.

Thanks to Cheryl for giving us that first retweet on Twitter way back in December 2014 and beginning the avalanche of follows. And also Arjun, Edward, Elise, Gil, Josh, Michelle, Robert, Thai, and Yena. Thanks for keeping a secret. And for actually knowing what people were up to so this could be relevant and not just haha Asian people. I'm super lucky to have gotten to know you guys.

DJ and Nathan were the only people, to my knowledge, to correctly deduce who I was. Thanks for the dedication, I guess?

I am forever indebted to Ms. Harris and the staff of Actual tjTODAY for, y'know, allowing my existence. They've been a pleasure to work with. They took our crappy 30-seconds-in-Paint logo and printed 2,000 copies of it, for heaven's sake. They're great.

And I'll skip the "this was so meaningful to me" spiel and just say - to be able to log in and see that 20 people liked something? That means I made 20 people a little happier. What a f@#!ing honor. Thank you, seriously, for letting me be funny for you.

bye lol
- Adam


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RTjT is over. Thank you to these people: Arjun, @cherylhungry, Claudia, creffett, @TooEZ_OL56, @Holfie1, @JustGilThings, Grey, @jbwoglom...
Josh, Michelle, Robert, Stephen, Thai, and @yen_and_yang for their contributions to rejected journalism.
And ESPECIALLY Gavin! If you don't think Gavin is the s@#! then you're wrong.
The full spiel is on Facebook... but no, seriously, thanks for sticking around, thanks for the ride.
To be able to log in and see that 20 people liked something? That means I made 20 people a little happier. What a f@#!ing honor.
Thank you, seriously, for letting me be funny for you. #LT