28 and feeling white

I always forget what I look like until I see a picture of myself. I go merrily about my life, feeling perfectly normal, until one day I download the pictures from some occasion (say, for instance, my birthday party), and I am taken aback to see a tall pale chick in the middle of all my friends. Sometimes I think to myself, I should get some more sun, I am looking a bit wan.

So far, however, despite some rather painful burns I still generally look like someone who hasn't been out much... And everywhere I go people still say to me, you aren't from around here, are you?

Ps. Don't worry about the little girl who looks upset over my blowing out the candle. She always gets emotional when people sing "Happy Birthday".