Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

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At brunch the other day, my friend Drew mentioned that each person in Raleigh is supposed to try and keep their water usage under 35 gallons a day. (He clearly reads his bill more carefully than I do.) When I went to check my usage, I was at 52 whopping gallons a day! My first thought was that there had to be a leak. Second, I thought that most people in Raleigh are out of their homes using water elsewhere 40 hours a week, and I’m not. But still, I want to do whatever I can to get my water usage back where it should be. I’ve set up a little weekly calendar in the bathroom. I make myself check when I flush. It’s my little reminder to “let it mellow”, and I think it’s helping a lot. I went to Target and bought a lot of bottled drinking water. My only concern about it is that I have teeth that are very prone to decay, and this water doesn’t have fluoride in it. As a person who doesn’t shower every day (Oh just stop it. I have really dry skin.), I thought that I would be way below the average for sure. Guess I was wrong. Perhaps I’d better hang up a poster of Raleigh’s drought mascot, Rainy, to inspire me. What on earth?! I am amazed this actually exists!

Check your bill. How are you doing? It tells you right at the top.

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, but this is definitely the day. As many of you know, the student body president at UNC was killed earlier this week. Two days before she died, she participated in Tony Diefel’s most recent photography project. He is the guy who did that Seeing Beyond Sight challenge that I loved so much last year at Explosure. His new project asks people to write why they do what they do on their hand and take a portrait. Here is Eve Carson’s:

Tony is very passionate about what he does. I highly recommend that you participate in the project. Here’s the basic idea:

WDYDWYD is a worldwide community-art project to answer the simple question “why do you do what you do?” by combining an image and text in a creative way.

I hope he gets a Flickr group started soon. He’ll get more responses than he knows what to do with! Think I’ll email him about that right this moment!

Now sub to his blog feed: Link

The Krispy Kreme Challenge is tomorrow. I’m not thinking I’ll go this year. I don’t think that I need to see a bunch of people vomiting every year. Maybe every other year is enough. If you don’t know, runners start at the bell tower at NC State, run to the Krispy Kreme, eat a dozen donuts (each!) then run back to the bell tower. I took video last year and edited this piece together. It’s one of the most viewed of my self-created YouTube videos (outside, of course, a few of my best karaoke videos!).

I know I use superlatives a lot, but really, my birthday weekend was pretty exceptional! Brian and Shannon had this really great party for me, and a ton of my favorite people showed up. We sat outside on the deck by the fire, played Apples to Apples (which I’ve barely played since I left Boston), played Wii (I’m a little embarrassed that I’m actually SORE from it!), and had just a generally very fine time. I love my friends. I really do. I’ve done quite well for myself. What’s even MORE fun is that friends of mine who didn’t know each other before met and seemed to like each other. That’s always been a phenomenon I’ve really loved. Anyway, a few images from the fun (first three by Katy, who was an absolute STAR with the camera):

This one by Lalitree:

More party pictures on Flickr.

There was also a great Flickr meetup on Saturday at the former Bickett Gallery. Thanks, Molly! We had such a fun time. Check out the pictures.

I’m most proud of this slightly racy one: