sunburns

Have you ever gone on a science field trip? You know, one of those ones where you go waayyy out in the middle of nowhere to look at how the landscape was affected by a glacier 80,000 years ago. And of course you have to hike about a million miles to get up to the remote glacial feature, so that you can draw it with your absolutely stunning artistic skillz that are completely comprehendable to people who aren't you, and then you get to hike back down to the bus, which is parked about three miles away from where it dropped you off. And the whole time the sun is shining, and you're wearing a tank top and shorts, and carrying a backpack full of all the stuff on your teacher's list of necessities. And all this hiking and drawing and fun lasts about five hours (because the school day is seven and the bus ride was an hour both ways).
Yeah, so I went on one of those amazing field trips on Wednesday of this week, and guess what this genius forgot to do - put on sunblock.
I'm sooooo burnt. My new names at school these past two days have included not only the originals Lobster and Tomato, but also Heinz ('cause I'm as red as ketchup, apparently), Genius (for forgetting sunblock when I've lived in Montana for eleven years), and some other ones that I don't care to repeat.
But seriously, the skin on my shoulders is so badly burnt that the skin is cracking, and I can't move my right shoulder past neutral position or it stings like ****. My left shoulder isn't as bad, however, because the nerves are so dead I can hardly feel anything there at all. Although I can feel it when all the lovely people at school decide to see how I'll react when they hit me to see if it'll leave a mark.
Ahhh, I love them to death.
Well, actually, I do...just not when they do that *scowl* I'll really miss them when the year's over, which is only in less than two weeks (!!).
Anyways, yeah, I just wanted to share how stupid I was :P don't ever forget sunblock!!