► index

• 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

► overview

• MMXVIII
• chinese zodiac ▸ year of the earth dog
• dictionary.com's word of the year ▸ ❝ misinformation ❞
  • n., false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead
• numerological universal year ▸ 11 / 2
• pantone colour of the year ▸ ultra violet (18-3838)
• time's person of the year ▸ the guardians

► music

• ❝ africa ❞ – weezer (2018)
• ❝ bad at love ❞ – halsey (2017)
• ❝ big god ❞ – florence + the machine (2018)
• ❝ counting cards ❞ – rainbow kitten surprise (2015)
• ❝ fire and the flood ❞ – vance joy (2014)
• ❝ gone ❞ – harry hudson (2018)
• ❝ go on, say it ❞ – blind pilot (2008)
• ❝ hunger ❞ – florence + the machine (2018)
• ❝ i hope you're happy ❞ – blue october (2018)
• ❝ let her go ❞ – passenger (2012)
• ❝ lost on you ❞ – LP (2016)
• ❝ lucky 88 ❞ – speedy ortiz (2018)
• ❝ my type ❞ – saint motel (2014)
• ❝ new rules ❞ – dua lipa (2017)
• ❝ no roots ❞ – alice merton (2017)
• ❝ running up that hill ❞ – placebo (2003)
• ❝ seekers and finders ❞ – gogol bordello ft. regina spektor (2017)
• ❝ sick boy ❞ – the chainsmokers (2018)
• ❝ slow hand ❞ – the pointer sisters (1981)
• ❝ sunny ❞ – bobby hebb (1966)
• ❝ take it all back 2.0 ❞ – judah & the lion (2016)
• ❝ thank u, next ❞ – ariana grande (2018)
• ❝ the a team ❞ – ed sheeran (2011) ❤
• ❝ the sky is a neighborhood ❞ – foo fighters (2017)
• ❝ this is america ❞ – childish gambino (2018)
• ❝ wish i knew you ❞ – the revivalists (2015)
• ❝ wolves ❞ – selena gomez & marshmello (2017)

► film

• avengers: infinity war (2018)
• black panther (2018)
• coco (2017)
• doctor strange (2016)
• dumplin' (2018)
• hannah gadsby: nanette (2018)
• lion (2016)
• moana (2016)
• ocean's eight (2018)
• she's gotta have it (1986)
• thor: ragnarok (2017)
• the truman show (1998)

► literature

• ask baba yaga: otherworldly advice for everyday troubles
  • taisia kitaiskaia
• dear ijeawele, or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
  • chimamanda ngozi adichie
• enchantments: a modern witch's guide to self-possession
  • mya spalter
• goddesses in everywoman: powerful archetypes in women's lives
  • jean shinoda bolen, m.d.
• the princess bride
  • william goldman
• women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype
  • clarissa pinkola estés, ph.d

► podcasts

• making gay history
• nancy
• potterless
• spirits

► television

• american idol (2002) · season 16
• atypical (2017) · seasons 1, 2
• big brother (2000) · season 20
• celebrity big brother (2018) · season 1
• making a murderer (2015) · season 2
• orange is the new black (2013) · seasons 5, 6
• patriot act with hasan minhaj (2018) · season 1
• queer eye (2018) · seasons 1, 2
• rupaul's drag race (2009) · season 10
• shameless (2011) · seasons 1-6
• she's gotta have it (2017) · season 1
• the chilling adventures of sabrina (2018) · season 1
• the clinton affair (2018)
• the crown (2016) · seasons 1, 2
• the good place (2016) · seasons 2, 3
• the nineties (2017)

► major events

• in january, my best friend of sixteen years died at the age of twenty-six. i flew twelve hundred miles for the third time in a month to accompany her, our family, and our friends to one last funeral.
  • i still miss you every day.
• in february, i haunted my sister's apartment: the husk of a houseguest.
  • can you still feel her, too?
• in march, my worst self was immortalized in derivative poetry. i quietly lost and regained my mind in the meandering terrain of the western slope.
• in april, i slept for three nights on a cot at your hospital bedside. in the healing garden, i sought calm moments aside a bubbling pond and meditated in the cool spring sunshine. in its abutting chapel with the stain-glassed eden, i prayed for your swift recovery; for access to my own inner wells of patience.
• in may, i baked a white cake and iced it in the full flower moon's likeness. i blew out twenty-eight candles with a wish as big as my whole heart.
• in june, i scrambled, desperate.
• in july, i began to work again, following one miserable yearlong (my longest) stint of unemployment. we welcomed our first houseguest & visitor from “back home.”
  • synchronicity on fleek.
• in august, i gazed upon the perseids as my heart's mile-marker.
  • 2009 · 2015 · 2018
• in september, i distracted myself from your birthday with theirs.
• in october, i regarded myself so shamefully, so disdainfully: i am so typically cyclical and i must demand better, of and for myself.
• in november, i accomplished two significant weight loss goals and shone in my first starring role as preparer of a delectable thanksgiving feast.
• in december, …

► deaths ▸ personal

• elizabeth ann ❤ · 09/22/1991 to 01/20/2018
• dustin wayne · 01/13/1994 to 06/26/2018
• shanna denise · 11/01/1990 to 10/04/2018

► deaths ▸ celebrity

• dolores o'riordan · 09/06/1971 to 01/15/2018
• stephen hawking · 01/08/1942 to 03/14/2018
• margot kidder · 10/17/1948 to 05/13/2018
• aretha franklin ♛ · 03/25/1942 to 08/16/2018
• mac miller · 01/19/1992 to 09/07/2018
• stan lee · 12/28/1922 to 11/12/2018
• george h. w. bush · 06/12/1924 to 11/20/2018

► births

• ryleigh akroma · 11/04/2018 12:12 EST

► ## ▸ 0-100

• zero sexual encounters.
• one new tattoo.
• two haircuts.
• three weeks in kentucky.
• four months at my new job.
• twenty-eight years old.
• one hundred pounds shed.