i speedrun showers using steely dan
this isn’t a joke post but i felt like it made more sense here than the main sub lol. i have a hard time getting myself to shower regularly. one of the reasons is that i have a hard time gauging how much time is passing while i’m in there, and i end up taking very long showers because i just can’t tell how long it’s been.
a couple months ago, i decided to start listening to aja (the full album) while i shower to measure how long i’m taking since i’ve listened to it so many times and have a good sense of how long each song is (plus it gives me an incentive to shower since it means i get to listen to aja). i keep track of my “splits” and everything— i know that i should usually be done washing my face & body around the end of black cow, that i should start conditioning my hair around the first solo in aja, etc etc.
when i first started doing this a few months ago, i would usually finish my shower + doing my hair about halfway through “i got the news”. today, i managed to get out of the shower roughly 7 minutes into aja (right about when the second drum solo starts) and i finished doing my hair right as deacon blues was ending, meaning the whole process took roughly the length of side 1 (20 minutes and 44 seconds)— a new record for me.
this started as just kind of a silly idea i had, but i’ve actually been really impressed at how much time i’ve been able to cut out of my showers, and it’s dramatically decreased the amount of dread i feel at the prospect of showering, cuz i now know that i can do it in 20 minutes or less if i time everything well. was just curious, does anyone else do anything like this?