The sun! It burns!

[thistlechaser]

Literally. Darned California sun. Darned being white as a ghost. It takes me ten minutes to drive to work. Ten. And in that time my arm gets burned bright red, sunburned to the point of it hurting. In ten minutes. This is not just an early summer thing, it happens to me spring-to-fall.

Note to self: Take the sunblock off desk, put in car.

Ow ow, my poor arm.

And related(?). The end of the world has been rescheduled. Harold Camping now says end is coming October 21st. I really hope he gets no news coverage this time...

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[bricriu.livejournal.com]

Well, now, to be entirely fair to the old crazy man, that was the original end date of his prediction anyway.

It was "Faithful will be raptured on May 21, then tribulation, then world ends on October 21."

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! Good point! We'll all see the light on 10/21, I'm sure. :P

[hammerstorm.livejournal.com]

And people are baffled when i say I hate the sun :<
I am very-very white, and when it's sunny in our part of the world - it is to the extreme, and usually a rarity that kind of happens in bursts. So, no sunblock laying around on regular basis.

The only salvation is freckles.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

This is clearly all just build up for December 21st 2012, the real end of the world!

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

Ah, the sun. I have the exact opposite problem: I got my first person speaking spanish to me of the year, just last week. (I brown up like a toasted marshmallow. lol)

Anyway, I read that about Harold Camping. That dude better hope he passes away by old age before October 21st or something, because he's running out of excuses.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Brown's handy! I go white-red-white-red all summer long (or at least my one arm does, the rest of me stays mostly white!).

And Camping is pretty darned old, I wouldn't be surprised if he passes and some other nutjob takes over for him.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ho ho ho! What's Santa bringing for us this year? THE END OF THE WORLD!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, we're the opposite of you. Most years we get rain only in three months (our winter), the rest of the year it's nonstop cloudless, bright sunshine. It's brutal. I can and do get sunburns in less than ten minutes. (This year is wacky and we're getting rain way outside of the winter season -- we're supposedly getting some tonight!)

this is the kind of sunblock I just bought (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009R14XG), which might work for you as well. It's tiny, I can almost hide it in a closed fist. You could tuck it into a purse or something, then have it on hand when you need it!

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

The Great Disappointment, round 2! Miller said the same shit about October 1844.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I might suggest one of these. (http://www.dustycouture.com/dustybacon/Post_Images/2010_Winter_Spring/FirePerformSafety/Fire-proof_and_Heat_Insulation_Suit.jpg) Complete sun protection and shoot those pesky sun rays back at the sun! That'll teach it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

HA! A tad challenging to drive in, but otherwise I approve!