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insomnia (and ozone erosion)
Hmm... I can't figure out if getting up and writing when I can't sleep is a GOOD thing or means I am sleeping even less than before (but it sure is less boring than lying awake trying to sleep.) It may say something that I tend to only to have time to write when I am either home from work sick or SUPPOSED to be asleep...
Anyway, the most noteworthy thing of the day is that I managed to get sunburned just from walking home from the bus. Not badly; it is already fading with the generous and frequent application of lots of aloe, but still... (Those who have done the bus commute to my house know that this is only about a ten minute walk, even if one is rather tired; anyone doing this during the day since the trees got full leaves may also have noted that a lot of this route is shaded.) Now, ok it IS almost the Summer Solstice, but STILL this was around four in the afternoon. And I hadn't been outside all day, as on days when I open (Thursday always being one of them) I don't generally go outside with my class. And I was NOT sunburned when I started the day.
Meanwhile, Chip left (by bicycle) to get the car from the mechanic around 3:30 (approximately a half hour bike ride from our house to the mechanic) and ALSO got sunburned, rather more badly than I (though not truely heinously. Again, aloe is a wonderful thing.)
I never wore sunscreen as a child unless I was going to the town (outdoor) swimming pool for the day or some such similar situation, and I didn't burn (and Chip says the same was true for him.) Neither of us spends all day, every day, inside, either, although (for obvious reasons) I wear sunscreen on days with any sun at all when I will have to be out on the playground with my class. But one would expect SOME resistance to what I would have considered minimal sun exposure; I wear SPF 15 (rather than something higher) intentionally. so I will hopefully build up SOME resistance. (Also because all sunscreen irritates my skin some, and it gets worse as the summer goes on. The lower the SPF, the less it irritates my skin, so I use the minimum SPF I can get away with.) Then again, I usually start wearing sunscreen again for the year when I first notice my face has begun to burn; this year this was the VERY beginning of March.
Hmm... thinning ozone layer anyone?
Anyway, the most noteworthy thing of the day is that I managed to get sunburned just from walking home from the bus. Not badly; it is already fading with the generous and frequent application of lots of aloe, but still... (Those who have done the bus commute to my house know that this is only about a ten minute walk, even if one is rather tired; anyone doing this during the day since the trees got full leaves may also have noted that a lot of this route is shaded.) Now, ok it IS almost the Summer Solstice, but STILL this was around four in the afternoon. And I hadn't been outside all day, as on days when I open (Thursday always being one of them) I don't generally go outside with my class. And I was NOT sunburned when I started the day.
Meanwhile, Chip left (by bicycle) to get the car from the mechanic around 3:30 (approximately a half hour bike ride from our house to the mechanic) and ALSO got sunburned, rather more badly than I (though not truely heinously. Again, aloe is a wonderful thing.)
I never wore sunscreen as a child unless I was going to the town (outdoor) swimming pool for the day or some such similar situation, and I didn't burn (and Chip says the same was true for him.) Neither of us spends all day, every day, inside, either, although (for obvious reasons) I wear sunscreen on days with any sun at all when I will have to be out on the playground with my class. But one would expect SOME resistance to what I would have considered minimal sun exposure; I wear SPF 15 (rather than something higher) intentionally. so I will hopefully build up SOME resistance. (Also because all sunscreen irritates my skin some, and it gets worse as the summer goes on. The lower the SPF, the less it irritates my skin, so I use the minimum SPF I can get away with.) Then again, I usually start wearing sunscreen again for the year when I first notice my face has begun to burn; this year this was the VERY beginning of March.
Hmm... thinning ozone layer anyone?
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I spend way MORE time outside than I did as a kid. I was one of these kids who was almost always inside reading, and hid in the corner of the playground under a tree during recess with a book and hoped no one would decide to beat on me that day. Now I have a job where I am outside with my class about two hours most days, and also commuting partially out in the sun.
And Chip's been doing a ton of yardwork and riding his bike most days he isn't doing heavy physical labor.
And unlike me, he forgets to wear sunscreen a lot.
I just wash it off a lot when it starts to bug my skin too much...
But I will leave the arguing to the good folks who study ozone related things. (I must be the only person in our entire community who absolutely *hates* arguing over anything, particularly though written mediums.)
The immediate practical application of yesterday's sunburn experience is that Chip and I both need to be a lot more careful about using sunscreen. I, perhaps especially, as BOTH my parents have had a whole bunch of cancerous moles removed in the last few years (they are fine. their doctor caught all of the canceerous bits early and throughly cauterized the area after removing the effected tissue.) And Chip has even more lumpy moles than I do (which apparently are the kind one most has to keep an eye on, or so my parents' doctor has said) so I can't imagine it's much better for him to be getting sunburned regularly either.
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If you like, buy a straw hat, and I'll decorate it with beads like Tigerlily's.
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And lots of water, too. Drink LOTS of water -- it helps.
Ben, OTOH, got a bit of a burn and now is more swarthy than usual. I think he's a little upset about not being his usual deathly-pale geek boy shade :