In December of last year, I lost my apartment. It would have happened much, much sooner were it not for the help of people who read GJAIF, who came to my aid when I needed it. You guys bought me an extra 16 months of time, and it helped - at the end of January this year I landed a job. A perfect job. You guys have no fucking idea how much I love this job, and how excited I am to go into work every day. I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you.

I can never begin to repay the number of you who helped us last year, but I can follow the advice many of you gave when you donated money - pay it forward. I’m going to be doing a lot of that this year. I can’t possibly hope to pay it forward on as grand a scale as I received, but I can do it in small ways. Every chance I get to pay it forward, if it’s within my means, I will do so. Because for every person on Twitter who sent me abuse, who made up shit about me, who decried me as a moron for even having this blog in the first place, there were five others who helped me keep my head above water not just in a financial sense, but in morale.

This blog, this exercise in negativity, has ended up being one of the most positive experiences in my life. I’ll never forget that.

Thank You.