Thursday September 4, 2008 4:34pm

Death by shower it is.

The other day I was hanging out at my sister's house with my 15 year old nephew and his friends. They were playing that game where you hold your breath and have someone punch you in the chest so you momentarily black out. You know what I'm talking about right? That can't be good for you but I wasn't stopping them. Anyway, It reminded me of when I was a little younger than them and I used to do something to a similar effect. I would take these steaming hot showers and kinda squat down once it was really hot then stand up quickly. It would make me really dizzy and everything would go black for a little bit. I would do it over and over and usually find myself kind of convulsing against the wall or giggling madly while everything came back to view around me. That really could not have been very good for me. There was this one time I didn't manage to stay standing and when I got out of the dreamy state I was on the floor of the bathroom with the shower curtain pulled down and wrapped around me toga style. That's when I decided it was time to stop poppin' squats and began experimenting with LSD. *Ahem* That's a lie but really, that probably would have been a lot healthier for me.

- A.