So ... it’s that time again — for an annual story time.
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So, that next morning, I did what I do. ... I was applying for jobs, writing, and trying to figure out what my ~new life~ would be.pic.twitter.com/SsL2r5XHsT
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Here is what I wrote that second day in DC: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/-the-legacy-of-a-legacy/29254/ … ... I didn't know it then, but I knew it then. I'd become a journalist.
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My bio from the article that day makes me chuckle — and remember how much I have to thank the early blogosphere for my career today:pic.twitter.com/accUKRd3Kg
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Within a month, I met
@seanbugg and@RandyShulman ... and they gave me freelance work at@metroweekly. Within months, that became my job.Show this thread -
In February 2010, I wrote my first cover story — on the start of what became the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.pic.twitter.com/mbc2pYRm8U
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In the next two-and-a-half years, I covered the end of DADT, the LGBT movement, the beginnings of the end of DOMA, marriage—and the theater!pic.twitter.com/gLsT8tos8H
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I also, in 2011, wrote my four-part series on the history of DOMA. Here was part 1: http://www.metroweekly.com/2011/05/domestic-disturbance/ …pic.twitter.com/EFy2hHMqoN
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During this time, I also decided (long after others urged it) that it was time for me to get sober. So, in June 2010, I stopped drinking.
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Then, in June 2012,
@BuzzFeedBen asked me to come to@BuzzFeed. ... Who knew?!Show this thread -
I covered the end of DOMA, the end of Prop 8, the “Utah Marriage Christmas” (as my family thinks of it), all the way ... to June 26, 2015.pic.twitter.com/n4OATl2ykq
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After DOMA was struck down in 2013, we expanded my role and I was covering more of the Supreme Court’s docket and more as legal editor.
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So, I also was doing that—and added a focus on the death penalty. Then, Justice Scalia died unexpectedly—and there was a vacancy to cover.
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I ran a half-marathon, we got a SCOTUS nominee, I interviewed AG Lynch on a flight back from Alabama, and ... I interviewed President Obama.pic.twitter.com/SG5SIL5Epk
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Like, what the hell? This was not the life I imagined. Not in my wildest dreams.
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As the year progressed, of course, Trump won the election — and my job took on a whole new level of ... whatever this has been.
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In addition to covering the Supreme Court and Trump’s new nominee, I also was covering all the travel ban litigation right from the start.
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As folks know, I then got Hepatitis A this fall and was out of commission for a few weeks.
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There was no better way of me understanding how much my life has changed since I moved here than that.
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There also was no better way of showing me how much I love my job — and my friends, family, sobriety, &, honestly, all of you — than that.
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So, here I am, eight years later, working on a long, wild constitutional story with my editor, loving my life, and eager to keep this going.
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Also, how wild is this? I ran my fastest 5K time ever this evening. (That made me damn happy, given I could only run a mile 3 weeks ago.)pic.twitter.com/Qr255XJwSL
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I thank everyone. My friends who helped me move here and live here and find work here, the friends who helped me get sober, my family ...
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... my co-workers/friends who put up with me at my me-est, everyone who’s been a source or a subject or an expert or anything, and ...
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... of course, all of you—people who read, follow, RT, comment, criticize, make me think ... & have been such great friends over the years.
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I never, not for a second, imagined when my plane landed 8 years ago in this city that I would be spending my days at the Supreme Court.pic.twitter.com/AkscA19dQ2
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But here we are. I am so constantly grateful for the opportunity to do so and humbled by it. I try my best each day; that’s all I can do.
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Here’s to whatever comes next. I only know I have no clue what it will be. ... Night, all, and let us be good to one another—and ourselves.
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