I went to London for the first time and it was fine but the people I met were amazing and I enjoyed going on the London Eye and the Tate Modern was well worth the visit. I exercised a lot and hated every moment of it. I started dating a lovely woman who walks very fast, and thinks she is 5'4.5", bless her heart (she’s like 5'2").
I received a presidential fellowship from Yale University which brought one part of my life full circle and now I am teaching there I guess. I quit my day job because I was not valued there the way I deserve to be valued at this point in my career and if I am thinking too highly of myself for that, I will be okay. On a very bad day, the plumbing exploded two weeks after I moved in. I learned that when you own a house you are responsible for its care and feeding. I bought a house and did it all on my own and it still doesn’t feel real because I never thought such a thing would be possible. I had to deal with my feelings instead of eating them and I did, mostly. A difficult thing happened but it happened with a lot of grace and love. I went to Vegas with new friends and saw Magic Mike Live and the show is masterful and the drinks are HUGE. Beyoncé waved at me so we might be married now. I saw Beyoncé and her fella in concert with seven wonderful people and we had really great seats. I traveled way too much and did a lot of speaking engagements. I won an Eisner for World of Wakanda, and I am really proud of that.
I went to a movie premiere with my best friend and we met Janelle Monae and saw lots of celebrities including M’Baku, a man who makes me wish I was a carrot. I had my first manicure and the manicurist came to my apartment and made our fingernails pretty. I wrote an episode of a limited series and the studio didn’t like it and it was a failure but I learned from it.
I worked on things you will be reading or watching in the coming years. I curated an anthology about Unruly Bodies, and an anthology about rape culture called Not That Bad, and edited Best American Short Stories 2018. My memoir, Hunger, came out in paperback. My very first book, Ayiti, was re-released. and men like him who think they can dictate their comebacks, and a short story called Boy In a Coma, and whether or not we can separate the art from the artist, and how much I hated the show Insatiable, and I am forgetting some things but I am not so good at keeping track anymore. I wrote about love, and the importance of voting while disillusioned, and a year of #MeToo, and activism fatigue, and Roseanne and Roseanne again, and how it is our responsibility to deal with Trump’s racism, and the shooting in Thousand Oaks, and Louis C.K.