My Battle with the Sun

For about 4 or 5 months out of the year here in Arizona I am locked into an epic battle that can only be won by time itself. It starts in April and doesn’t cease until September and the fight is generally pretty one sided. My enemy, you might be wondering…Mother Nature, and man is she a real witch with a capital ‘B’. Some of you might not understand what I am talking about and that makes perfect sense knowing that you rarely have to deal with temperatures over 90 ish. Me, on the other hand, I get bitch slapped by these temperatures every day for almost half the year. I try to fight it, but there just isn’t much that I can do, especially when my roommates like to keep turning off the air conditioning. It gets up to 100 degrees by Noon as of late and these dumbasses keep turning off the air. I swear if they keep doing it I will make them pay…oh yes, they will pay…

I’m also convinced that the sun has some sort of personal vendetta against me and my poor pale skin. It's me versus the Sun and most of my players seem to be injured. I’m not sure how this happened, but I got sunburned at the beginning of the past week. Now most of you are probably saying, “Big deal, you always get sunburned easily”, but this is different. I was never outside for more than 30 minutes at a time and generally no more than that a day over the past week. I was burnt on Sunday, but that was gone by Monday morning so it wasn’t that. Yet on Tuesday morning I woke up and was redder than an albinos eye. That’s right…an albinos eye. I thought back over what I did the day before and if I remember correctly it was spent almost entirely inside watching movies and playing games, I was feeling lazy…don’t judge me. So I have no idea how I got so burnt. My face, my arms, my back…it was freakin weird. Have you ever experienced the shock and pain of taking a hot shower when you have a sunburn, it’s not fun. Like I said I was unaware that I was so burnt so I stumbled into the bathroom in the morning to take a shower and right when that water hit me I screamed so loud and freaked out causing me to slip and fall as I tried to shut off the water. Now, not only was I laying on the floor in the shower getting pelted with hot water by the crazy powerful showerhead, but I’m also grabbing my head in pain since it got slammed into the shower door on my way down. Needless to say it was a bad morning and a horrible start to my week off of school. Nothing says vacation like red skin and a gash in the head…only normally that stuff is in some way caused by alcohol. So if anyone is keeping score; it’s Sun: 1 Jason: 0 and we are still in the bottom of the first…