Method acting

It seems to me that I haven't been updating as often as I ought.

Um. Sorry.

By way of apology, I will share with you another stupid waterfall death story from my sister. It seems, (says Sako) that there was a small group of drunk young men swimming in a pool at the top of a waterfall. There is no possible combination of words in this story that bodes any good: 'drunk young men,' for instance, doesn't need the 'drunk' qualifier to give you chills of foreboding; 'young men' standing by itself already has a knell of doom quality to it. Nonetheless, drunk young men, swimming in a pool at the top of a waterfall.

One of them, being very clever, decides he would like his friend to take a picture of him. "Hey," he says. (We must go by witness accounts, as -- well, it's a Sako story, so you're pretty much guaranteed something bad is going to happen to him.) At any rate. "Hey," he says, and climbs up onto the rocks at the edge of the pool. "Take a picture of me pretending to go over the edge."

And he leans back so that he'll look unbalanced.

I refer you to adjective 'drunk,' used above. It seems the young man was a method actor. He went over.

On the bright side, his buddy apparently got a great photograph.