Last week, the word missing from many of those Eve drunk and reckless stories was the missing word, “suspicion.” Yes, LA police arrested her on suspicion of being drunk. You know, stumbling and mumbling, a headlight piece here.. the fender over there. “I think this chick might be drunk.” (- Gotta love the post-Don Imus automatic edit. I really wanted to say ‘bitch.’

In any case, today the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office made it official: Eve Jeffers you are charged with DUI (0.08%, twice the legal limit) and not showing proof of insurance. How do you plead?.. wait a minute, don’t answer that. You’ll be in this court on May 17th for the formal proceeding - definition: arraignment.

Eve will face a maximum $1000 fine, possible six month jail sentence.

We all know the jail sentence is going to happen. This woman has music to make, tours to go on, white men to cuddle up with… well at least to groove to.

With the less enebriated behind the wheel of her Maserati, Eve is back on the pre-album publicity blitz. This month in XXL, hidden between pages 71 and 76, I mean really buried, Eve let’s us know, not only did Mr. Timberlake give you a nice catch phrase, he saved the game.

It took two white boys to bring R&B back: Justin and Robin Thicke.”

Her words. Your chance to think.. is she right about that? I’m sure statements like that will get Usher back in the studio like.. tonight.

We all know Eve is far removed from her Ruff Ryder, shake it in the broke down, Bronx strip club roots. The girl.. wait a minute, excuse me.. woman is refreshed and now more comfortable with sexy than ‘hooch.’

“I don’t mind being sexy. There is a fine line between ‘hot’ and ‘hooch,’ and I’m not gonna do it..

She was talking about a couple of interview photos that accidentally had some extra titty popping out, and not willing to give the photographer that or the ‘backshot.’ She’s a new girl woman, not a street girl either.. Dre tried to get her to record something tough for the new album.. “I had to send a couple of producers away. Cause they were like, ‘This is how the streets want to hear you.’ You gotta come back like this.’ I get that that’s what the streets might want, but this is who I am right now.. I can’t make a Jeezy record. I’m not Jeezy. I’m Eve, yo. It would look wack on me, cause people would be like, “She’s wildin out.”

Taking the creative reigns for the new album, Here I Am, infusing it with something Leah Rose dubbed “urban crossover”, Eve see this as a chance to express her newfound sense of freedom, her understanding of life and how she fits in it.

It’s not a pet project either. Whether Here I Am goes platinum or wood, she’s already sketching another album to be released in ‘08.

What does all this mean for you?

It doesn’t always have to be about you, but.. today it is.

Here she gives advice, the principle which is the prescription medicine any and every person in a creative enterprise - blog, TV, music, writer or comedian - needs to inject in their cerebellum.

“I never wanted to be the girls I saw coming up. I never felt like I should do what other people already know. What’s the point of paying attention to me if I’m doing exactly what you see every day?”

Got it? good.