JSCC Student Blog

It is super cold outside!!!! Don’t get me wrong.  I love cold weather, but it just seems kind of early to be so cold!  Now that I think about it, the summer wasn’t exactly as hot as it could have been so I bet this winter is going to be pretty cold!  But that’s just my opinion.  I hope it snows. I love snow!  The way it almost blinds you when you look out of your window the morning after a freshly fallen snow…the way that you have to wear like 6 pairs of socks so your feet don’t get wet when you go out and play in it…and the best is after you come in from it you get to turn on the fire place and warm up with maybe some hot chocolate or something.  It’s pretty great.  I really hope it snows!!!

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn’t show signs of stopping
And I’ve bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight
How I’ll hate going out in the storm!
But if you’ll really hold me tight
All the way home I’ll be warm
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we’re still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Yes, it's natural.

I’m a red head. I admit it. I know this is hard to believe—especially if you know me—I have a really bad temper.  I know, I know. I can’t believe it either.  Maybe red heads are angry because only like 4% of the world is redheaded, and most of them are in Australia and, of course, Scotland! I’m a little upset about it!  I was doing some research on redheads and found some pretty interesting things!!

• There is a belief that redheads are more prone to deafness. This actually could be true as the melanocytes ( the gene for red hair) are found in the middle ear.
• A 2002 study found that redheads are harder to sedate than any other people requiring twenty percent more anesthesia. Inadequate doses cause people to wake up during surgery and have increased recall of procedures.
• Adults have about 120,000 hairs on their head; redheads have fewer, blondes have more, brunettes have the most.
• Redheads don’t turn grey. Red hair turns sandy, then white. They are also found to lose their color later in life than people carrying other hair colors.
• The first human redheads walked this earth about 50,000 years ago in Africa and then spread throughout Northern Europe.
• In the late 16^th century, the fat of a redheaded man was an essential ingredient for poison.
• At St. Paul’s cathedral in London, figurines tell the story of the fall in the Garden of Eden. Adam points one hand to the forbidden fruit and the other to a golden haired Eve. Then the arch angel drives them from the garden. Adam with his fig leaf loops his arm around Eve who is now cowering and sporting a main of long red hair.  Eve’s red hair is seen as the stain of sin like the original scarlet letter. Later her son, Cain, will bare the red hair and also fall from grace.
• Adolph Hitler reportedly banned the marriage of two redheads as he feared their children would be “deviant offspring”.
• Bees are thought to sting redheads more than others.
• In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die.
• Russian tradition declares that red hair is both a sign that a person holds a fiery temper and craziness.
• A Russian Proverb warns “There was never a saint with red hair.”

I guess I’m a pretty bad chick huh??  Ha!!   

“You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,” said Anne. “People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”
-Anne said in Anne of Green Gables

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
   -Lucille Ball

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
-Mark Twain

Swimmer's Ear?...In November?

I haven’t even looked at a pool in about three months!  I went to the convenient care last Wednesday night in Jackson, and the doctor looked in one of my ears and said well that one looks good.  She looked in the other and scared the ever livin outta me when she said “Oh my gosh, girl!! What have you been doing to your ear??”  I had no clue what she was talking about!  She said it was all swollen and red. It came to me that this was the reason for the constant pain and itching I had in that ear that day.  She told me it was swimmer’s ear.  I said ok but when she turned her back I had a very confused look on my face.  It is the beginning of November (the prettiest time of the year) and I have swimmer’s ear…great…just my luck. This kind of stuff only happens to me.

  She told me that q-tips aren’t the best thing to use right after you get out of the shower. Now, if you’re like me and you use them religiously as soon as you get out to get the water out of your ear, then you’re just as confused as I was.  She said the doctors only recommend them on the outside of your ear…not all the way in it.  So, as hard as it is, I’m having to let go of my good friends, the q-tips.  I would rather let them go than to go through this ever again though!  I had to wear ear plugs in my ears just to take a shower.  I couldn’t lay on my left side to sleep…my entire left side of my face hurt! Take it from me…you CAN get swimmer’s ear without swimming!! Be careful with the q-tips! The moisture in your ear is very mean and it will seem like it’s hitting you over and over on your ear canal!!  OUCH!

MATH!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Math used to be my BEST subject in high school.  These past few weeks in Algebra/Precal I haven’t been doing too great.  I mean, I’m not failing or anything, but it’s pretty difficult.  We had a test last Monday that I thought was supposed to be last Wednesday!  I didn’t even try to look over the practice test or anything.  It wasn’t even Halloween yet, but I had a pretty huge scare when I saw my grade!  That was a pretty awful test too.  If I would have studied, I think I would have done A LOT better.  Don’t you just hate those brain farts?  Forgetting a math test or even thinking it’s on another day?  That is just terrible.  I even wrote a little note at the end of my test that said “Hey I forgot the test was today!”  Oh, way to go!! That really looked mature, huh?  O well…this next test, I’m going to do better and it’s gonna be so good, I’m going to take a picture of it and post it on here!! That’ll push me to do better right?…well…hopefully.