I have $10.50 in my wallet, which means I've spent $7.50 so far this month. Throw in groceries, and I've lived on $67.50 since May 1.

All but 50 cents of that has been on food. In addition to the parking meters I spoke of earlier, I've missed packing my lunch a few days this week, and resorted to a slice of pizza at Pizza My Heart for lunch (with a cup of water) on two different occasions. Total cost: $7. Now, that's a bargain, but it's also 3.5 days of budget to me, so I'm kicking myself, especially since my refrigerator is still practically full, and I have another $62 of grocery budget kicking in this weekend.

Am I just not eating? That's what everyone asks, and on further reflection, the answer might be yes. My biggest concern going in was that I'd slip up and overspend. Now I'm worried that I'll coast through the rest of the month with ease, but hurt myself by undereating. That wasn't the point at all. 

I've always thought Katharine Hepburn was one of the most awesome women to ever walk the planet, and this behind-the-scenes footage of her redecorating the awful '70s set of the Dick Cavett show proves it.

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On the same theme as the young/old photo project at Color Wars, here's a woman dancing with a video of herself as a girl.

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This Lauren Thompson is quite a choreographer, actually. Even more entertaining than her self duet to Huey Lewis is this 5-minute (the whole thing's worth it!) video of walking down the street in New York City, to the tune of Queen's forgotten gem "Body Language."

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Like many people, I received my electronic deposit from the economic stimulus package this week. Not that it will do me any good. Nor should it.

I forgot, when I set up the terms for this challenge, that I had pre-planned a vacation to Boston and Rhode Island for Memorial Day weekend. The flight and lodging are already taken care of, but obviously it should cost more than $2 a day to sightsee in New England, right? My friends and family all assume that I'll either abandon the experiment for the duration of the trip ("It's a vacation, from everything!") or use the stimulus check of $300 as fun money for that purpose. No way. That's exactly what the feds want, and right now, I don't think they should get what they want. I figure if Santa Cruz, the second-most expensive place in America, can be done on $2 a day, so can New England.

Kind of. Here's the full explanation: 

Artist Ranjit Bhatnagar has proposed an art installation that takes the ambient noise from a room or a recorded piece of video and translates it into music with found objects. The demo video shows a simplified version learning the 'song' beneath a clip from Citizen Kane. The final project will loop each improvisation it learns and create compositions from it, and the artists promises that when he puts the installation in, he'll use found objects for the instruments from whatever location he's at.

So: Anyone in Santa Cruz want to make an offer on this, stat? 

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