Cold showers, Curls, Grammar

My roommate has deemed me either a “Cold-Showering CRAZY dood or Unorthodox Health Guru”.

I can’t vouch for his unorthodox choice of which parts of your sentence to capitalize, but I can say he’s been converted to the cold shower method.

I think I’m on Day 4 of this now, and it’s really become pretty routine and easy.

Not easy per se, but I do think the body is adjusting. Like I still have to take a moment and prepare to turn on the water, but overall there’s no sense of “can I get through this”, and I don’t hurry anything along to get out.

I can’t think of a reason I’d go back to taking hot showers – this is healthier, quicker, and I feel cleaner when I’m done.

It also makes me seem eccentric to people, which let’s just admit full-out, I like.

I’ve also realized there’s a slim possibility I don’t just seem eccentric, but that I am eccentric.

I can emphasize this by making words I want to stress come out in italics.

Coincidentally, there’s a style of weightlifting I occasionally cycle through called eccentric training, wherein you go super-slow on the negative portion of your repetition.

So basically, when I’m introduced to new people from now on, and the introducer says, “This is Brian, he takes nothing cold showers,” and the person answers, “My! You seem quite eccentric!”, I can lean in real close and be like, “Five seconds on the negative part of the bicep curl, eh pal?”, wink, and walk away.*

This plays into both definitions of the word, each of which I encompass.

*At least 15 grammatical errors in that paragraph – minimum.