90s (or earlier) short story involving a process of cellular cleaning that involved temporarily liquifying someone into a swimming pool

I remember two parts of the story in question:

• the protagonist was temporarily liquefied and expanded enough to fill a swimming pool while his cells underwent some kind of cleaning or surveillance


• afterwards, when the protagonist plucked his eyelashes they would give a kind of static or electric "pop"; if I remember correctly he did this to pass the time

The likeliest place for me to have read this would be in an issue of Asimov's magazine in the early to mid-90s (and second-likeliest would have been a "best science fiction short stories" anthology from the same timeframe).

Thanks to the answers to my last question I knew to first search for [story-identification] swimming pool and [story-identification] eyelash but didn't find any likely results. :)

Answer

The story is "We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy", by David Marusek, published in Asimov's November 1995 issue, and readable here in the Internet Archive.

It was also expanded on and published as a book (as jhpace1 mentioned in his comment) as Counting Heads.

Re: cellular disassembly in a swimming pool:

“Any one of those conditions gave them the authority they needed. They didn’t have the patience to read you slow and gentle like, so they pumped you so full of smartactives you filled a swimming pool.”

Re: eyelashes (actually eyebrows):

So I spend my days sitting in the dim dampness of my basement corner, growing pasty white and fat (twenty pounds already), and plucking my eyebrows to watch them sizzle like fuses.