when venturing away from home

Was just in the city of my birth this weekend. Shitting a lot too. Something odd that I've noticed is that when I'm away from my apartment a lot, I have a greater tendency to look more directly at my shit. Even like curving around and trying to get a peek as it hits the water. At home, I would never do this, but in novel-ly shaped toilets, I often have an urge to see how it all accumulates at the bottom of the bowl.

under lock and key

I was at my parents' house this past week. It's a house that I lived in for ~4 years, and the last long stretch I was there was 2005. It's pretty similar to how it was then but a few things have changed. It's a large house, and there are five bathrooms. Recently, a few of the bathrooms were redone. Curiously, even with that new attention, only one of the bathrooms locks (more correct: latches).

In a large house populated by two people with five bathrooms, I guess the need for locking is low. But when you have nine people staying there, the need goes way up. It just seems like of all the features you'd want in a bathroom, the privacy that a lock/latch provides is really high up there, and easy and cheap to add to boot.

And yet: there's something a little exciting about dumping when you know that someone could walk in. Particularly if you're amongst friends. It's like a little prank to everyone, the dumper and the walker-inner. It didn't happen over the course of the week as far as I know, but it's an interesting wrinkle to the dumping situation.

small thought

Older guys, wearing New Balance sneakers (you know which ones), taking dumps and making sounds in bathrooms with multiple stalls. That is all.

poop scoop

When you live with other people, and you only have one bathroom, there is the inevitability that one of you will be pooping while another person feels the pangs of needing to. It's rough stuff, but you get through it.

Recently, the timing of things has worked out such that my partner & roommate of many years has been scooping me on the bathroom, has been getting in there just as I find myself needing the shit the most. There is no blame, it's just something to pay attention to in the way sabremetric baseball people analyize hit clusters (if you hit 9 singles in an inning, you'll score a lot of runs, but if you hit 9 singles spread out over 9 innings, you probably won't). Pooping analytics.

work perk

Something I like in a working set up, not just an office, but a place you work, broadly defined (could be a coffee shop, a library, someone across the street whose apartment you can see into, etc), is when you have a perch that helps you be aware of who's dumping and when. It's none of my business, and I'm not gonna say anything, but it makes me feel like I know people better when I get a little sense of their dumping goings-on.

DDB endorses

I have been made aware of the cool thing that is Buttcon, to be held once again this summer in Detroit. Buttcon Buttcon Buttcon. Lots of art and thoughts and feelings about butts. A hearty endorsement over here from Doo Doo Bloggin for the work they're doing! And they're making a zine that may well have some writing from a familiar source in it... stay tuned! And read up on Buttcon!

doo doo grillin

I'm thinking of starting a spin off lifestyle blog to Doo Doo Bloggin called Doo Doo Grillin.