i got my first sunburn of the summer today. a couple of days ago it was near snow temperature in canada-land and i was upset. it’s JUNE. come on, canada, it’s already really easy to make jokes at your expense. don’t reinforce your stereotypes. and, hey, its true, i live in canada – and if you don’t, you’re probably making some assumption, like “well, canada is like that all the time”. BUT IT’S NOT. we’re just like you guys!!! we don’t live in cold all year round! the sun shows up here pretty consistently! but for some reason, in my portion of canada-land, we’ve had basically 2 or 3 nice days all year. BUT FINALLY today, we had sun, and so i went to go sit in it, at a baseball game.

there’s something about being a 20-something that makes you think you are immune to things. when you’re a kid, you do stuff because your parents tell you to. when you’re an senior, you do things to survive. but when you’re twenty-something, part of your brain tells you that you don’t need to put on sunscreen because you are of a magic age, and therefore invincible. so i sat there, in awe of warmth and how red my arms were getting and watched dudes hit baseballs with bats. it was awesome. i occasionally noticed how hot it was outside. i occasionally noticed how i was becoming severely dehydrated. at one point, i remarked to my friend, “isn’t it crazy how there is a burning thing out there that makes a crazy amount of heat?”. he gave me a look that said, “don’t talk to me like a six year old”.

later, i got home and passed out on the couch. i woke up four hours later, severely dehydrated and curiously charred. i raised my arm, and shooting pains ran through me. oh yeah! exposure to sunlight does that! i went to look in the mirror and a severely red dude stared back at me. i touched my neck. oh yeah! touching a sunburn hurts like that!

i spent the next two hours drinking a grand total of eleven huge glasses of water and now i am struggling to type out a legible blog for you with my sensitive arms.

(now i will go pass out from heat stroke. bye, internet!!!)

easter egg: here is my interpretation of panel six. nathan wanted to know what i was thinking of, so i “sketched” this out. don’t laugh. well, you can laugh if you want.