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New Face, New Life

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Two years ago, Dallas C. Wiens lost his face in a tragic electrical accident involving a power line and a cherry picker. Now, he only has a thin line for his mouth and a few facial hairs remain. He has had 12 surgeries, including one for graphing skin and taking muscle from his back to form a bulbous face that appear sheen and flat. He has no eye sight or smell and moves around with a walking cane. Although he is missing lips, teeth, eyebrows, and even facial definition, he can still be heard with a very clear voice though his mouth.

Although to most people, his facial deformity may be intimidating, Dallas’  three year old daughter loves him the same. She nicknamed him “boo boo” and doesn’t see any difference between everyone else and her father.

Today he can be found waiting till May to be able to get a facial transplant surgery. After turning 26, he can qualify for medical care and the United States Department of Defense agreed to pay for his surgery in hopes of helping soldiers with the same issue in the future. Dallas will also be the thirteenth person to ever receive a full facial transplant. Hopefully the thirteenth will be a lucky number.

Horosopes

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Horoscopes are a guilty pleasure of mine, along with several million people out in the world, but why?

Everyone wants to know what’s going to happen in the future, what our love life will be like, what our job prospects are like. It’s the same reason that people go to psychics, the same reason they see fortune tellers. Do these stars determine what will happen to us in the future? Maybe, maybe not.

They are simply self-fullfilled prophesies. If we’re told that something is going to happen, unconsciously our mind will try to alter our reactions, our words, and our thinking to fulfill whatever story that was told. Anything can happen, really.

Mutants

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The other day I was having a conversation with a friend or two while walking down the big hill to sports and it was pointed out how odd I am. As a ginger, I have blue eyes, and apparently that makes me rare.

As a child I’d always look as my parents as the people that created me, thus only having their traits. My dad had strawberry blonde hair and my mom had very dark, vibrant red hair, but I have an orangish tint in between. My mom had green eyes and my dad had grey eyes, but I have blue eyes. My my dad was 6’ft and my mom was 5’10, but I am 5’6. It never occured to me how odd my combination of traits were.

That makes me prefectly average when it comes to most everything but very strange when it comes to my eyes, hair, and skin. Here’s a statstic for it. 78.3% of red heads have green eyes. Hurray for be a mutant!

Birthdays

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Today is my birthday.

Birthdays are something we, as kids, cherish. It’s all about “growing up” and “being a big kid,” but when do we really stop and realize what we have? I’m finding that the older I get, the less excited I am for each birthday. Most kids my age are claiming that they’re excited to be 18, for freedom, and 21, for alcohol, but why? Does anyone stop and think that turning 18 is practically being thrown into a lion’s den from the comfy and less hostile world we’re used to? You have to pay for yourself, manage school work, and keep a social life. It’s already hard enough in high school to manage school work along with a social life. Even adults past age 27 or so wish they were younger. Here, in high school, and partially college, everything is set up for us, but when we hit the real world we’re on our own. I don’t want to grow up anymore.

Ginger Execution

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It may be old news to you, but it certainly is new to me. MIA, the Sri-Lankan/british pop star, posted a video on her website that involved the execution of young male gingers. Is that not odd at all? A Sri-Lankan popstar made a video on suppression? I just think that’s very strange. The nine minute long video is something I have not actually seen, because the video was recently taken off youtube, but I am still searching for a copy. It was originally posted on her website, but even her managers banned it. Silly MIA, your WWII relapse failed.

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Who is Scott Thompson?

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Scott Thompson is probably the best known ginger except for maybe Tiny Tim or Shaun White. Scott Thompson is Carrot Top. Personally, I am no big fan of Carrot Top, mostly beause of his straight yet diagnal eyebrows and his bulging muscles that simply seem too large and veiny to be real. (See picture below)

Apparently Scott had an interesting encounter with the Recycled Percussion, a all percussion group heading to China now for “China’s Got Talent.” Scott made the bet that the Doplphins would win against the Patriots in the “Monday Night Mash up.” If Scott were to lose he would have to perform five minutes of live percussion music against the RP’s Justin Spencer who, in return, would do five minutes of stand up comedy. In the end, the Patriots came out victorious. Tough luck Carrot Top.

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Blackout

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I woke up in the dark. My sense of time had been lost and my eyesight had been compromised due to the unknown amount of time that my eyes had been blissfully shut. It was absolutely silent around me. The ringing in my ears was deafening and there seemed to be no sign of commotion anywhere. Where was everyone? I sat up and frantically looked for my phone, which I found beside me. It was 7:29 on a perfectly average Monday night on the Ojai Valley School Upper Campus, except for the loss of electricity.

No lights, no power, no preparation. I found myself mindlessly walking toward the lounge where forty-something girls stood scattered among the feelings of chaos. Dorm parents were ordering the students around like a sheepdog would herd petrified sheep into formations we call single file lines. There we were, forty-something girls, in the dark, trying to organize and comprehend why exactly they were all in the dark.

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PDA

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It’s no surprise that Hayley Williams would eventually make her way into this blog. Last week she was surprised by a kiss a fan gave her on the cheek and proceeded to throw a fit. To be honest I don’t understand why a kiss is such a big deal, especially a harmless one on the cheek. This brings me to the topic of PDA here at the Ojai Valley School.

It has come to my intention that hugging and even putting your arms around some one is unacceptable. Why is that? In other countries a kiss of the cheek is a hello, and I know that in the student handbook it even says that “a quick kiss on the cheek as a greeting or leaving” is acceptable. Why cant two friends simply be just friends? On several occasions I have been called about by different faculty members for just sitting alone with some even when I am in the open. This is a boarding school and technically, this is our home for around 8 months or each year. Shouldn’t we feel comfortable? If we aren’t able to be friends with someone of the opposite sex and spend time with them alone, I don’t see how that makes OVS any more home-like. I know that I just went off an a pretty long tangent, but I felt like that had to be said sooner or later.

Wanna-be Gingers

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Recently a very well known celebrity decided to attempt the ginger look, and failed. Rihanna, the well-known pop star from the Barbados, was found to be sporting her new fiery hair at boyfriend Matt Kemp’s birthday party and even at Katy Perry’s bachelorette party. Who would’ve thought that a woman with naturally dark skin would choose fire hydrant red as a hair color? Surprisingly the crowd that voted on celebuzz.com chose “Yay – it’s red-hot and gorgeous!” To be honest, Rihanna is one of the very few people who can pull off her look, so props to you Rihanna! Even though you aren’t a natural, I’ll still give you props for trying.
New hair!

http://www.celebuzz.com/rihanna-red-hot-hollywood-g254501/

Ginger Spice

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As we all know I am a ginger, and the only legitimate ginger at this school. So why not make a blog about people like me? This little blog could shine some light on the not very well known lives of the gingers out there. Luckily enough, the first entry is about someone I believe everyone’s familiar with, Lindsay Lohan. On Friday, September 10th, the young actress was found to be sporting her natural red which she hadn’t had in years. All gingers look better with their natural hair and it looks as if the crowd that commented on the news post agreed. Good job Lindsay! I’m glad to see you come out of rehab with a fresh color of hair.