Brent Pirolli's

Have you ever seen “Trigger Happy TV” on Comedy Central?  I watched it for the first time tonight… and I laughed my BUTT OFF!  It was actually almost completely clean humor!  There was virtually no swearing…. no sexual references…. just flat out hilarious sketches done in real life…. like…

1)  a nun and a guy in a penguin suit are walkin along on a sidewalk, bump into each other… and the nun proceeds to beat the bejesus out of the penguin in the middle of the snow…. and everyone is just completely confused….

2)  or two girls are at a restaurant and everyone in there is in on the prank… cept them… and one orders an ice water, so everyone gets up and cheers and starts go-go-dancing to techno music… then everyone settles down and the other orders chicken… so the waitress says, “CHICKEN?  YOU ORDERED THE CHICKEN???  YOU ARE DISGUSTING!  THAT’S SICK!  JUST PLAIN SICK!!!” and stomps out…. and everyone in the restaurant walks out in disgust leaving just the two girls…. VERY confused….

3)  or these three people in dog suits follow random strangers on the street and then when the person realizes it and turns around, the dogs all turn around and act like they aren’t doing anything…. then continue following the person when they start walking again…..

4)  or finally…. a guy talking on a cell phone starts yelling that he’s sick of workin for this company, sick of the way he’s treated, and sick of the suits he has to wear… so he starts stripping off his suit in 20 degree weather and throws it in the river as people are gathering in a crowd watching him… and then he yells, “I QUIT!”  and everyone started clapping…. HAHAHAHA…

Great stuff…..  I was laughing hard….

Mood:  good…. but my eyes are all dialated from the eye doctor…
Music:  Theme music to “Trigger Happy TV”

So I’m in my first class today at 8:30am…. and I’m getting reviewed on a project that I’d worked on for a good 3 months…. and I realize….. “I’M SUPPOSED TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES TODAY!!!”  crap.  I’m sitting in a class…. stuck…. for 3 hours…. while all my peers register and fill up classes before me….  So needless to say, as soon as my review was done, I grabbed my stuff and split class like it was Baghdad and I was Saddam’s army…. I get back to my room, blow off a resident on the way, log onto the BGSU class scheduler thing… and what do I see???  “ERROR:  It is not your time to register.”  WHAT??!?!?  Apparently I’m on crack and I don’t get to register till 2pm….. that’s great…. I’m at lunch from 1:30-2:15 then I have class till 3:30….. Maybe I can use one of the Union’s crazy overcrowded computer labs to register….. ::sigh:: ah well… Since I skipped class…. I might as well sleep….. Goodnight.

Mood:  Grrrrr for scheduling….
Music:  Offspring – Genocide

So I couldn’t figure out what was making this bubbling/popping/gurgling noise in my room…. I could barely hear it when I was on my computer and I thought it was a bad connection in my monitor…. or maybe my throat even…. I was so confused for two days…. then my mouse started acting like the batteries were dying…. (I have a wireless laser mouse) and so I went to replace them… and saw a pool of battery acid that had developed from my bubbling battery…… ……. AHHHHhhhhhhhhhh silly panasonic batteries….

P.S.  Battery Acid doesn’t wipe up well…. It smears a lot.

Mood:  awake… unfortunately…. my ear hurts….
Music:  Beck – Loser (I KNOW Luke’s gonna comment on THAT!)

FOR ME TO POOP ON!

So I’m workin down at the front desk today… and one of my fellow RA staff members is talking to a friend about how she isn’t gonna graduate early despite her ability to do so…. She wants to stay… and I asked, “WHY!?!??!  It costs money to stay here!”  Now she actually had a legitimate reason… but her side comment was what REALLY bothered me… “I’m on a scholarship anyway….”

I asked her what for and she replied, “Academics.”  Now understand that I myself got a 4.163 GPA in High School and a 30 on my ACT score…. I was offered 1/4 the cost of full tuition…  OK… now understand that after our conversation I found out that her GPA was 3.7 and her ACT was 25…. so why is she on a full ride and I’m not?????  I’ll tell you.  Because she is African American.

I’m not a racist person… I have friends of all kinds of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, beliefs…. etc…. but the moment that I hear crap like that, I get furious…. why am I being discriminated against just because I am a white male…. Why do I end up with $20,000 worth of debt in loans when I’m done with college and she owes nothing???  WHEN I’VE OBVIOUSLY gotten better academic marks….

So the argument is passed off as, “Well… you’ve been better educated as a youth… better schools… so minorities never had a chance to compete with you…. so their standards are lower….”  EVEN IF that was the case….

1)  They’re adults in college now… they can work through it just the same as the rest of us!

2)  If compensation IS necessary to make up for a lifetime of bad school systems, is it really necessary to be THAT big of a difference???  3.7 and a 25!!!  COME ON!

So I was pretty cheesed off…. I’m poor… my parents aren’t helping me…. Just cuz I’m white… I have to be in debt…. ….. way to go human rights movements… thanks for screwing me over….. it’s not about equality… it’s about superiority….

Mood:  cheesed.
Music:  Jimmy Eat World – Hear You Me

I cut my hair…. it’s all short now… I know, it’s always short… but now it’s REALLY short…. and stuff…

I got to pull the fire alarm pull thingie today… I evacuated 11 floors of students…   Fire drills are fun…. (Yes, it was legal… )

I can’t wait till I’m done with school…. I know it’s fun and all as far as friends go and stuff… but this REALLY sucks… SO MUCH WORK!  bah.  On the “I don’t know how to feel about that” side… 4 more part-time staff members at CedarCreek just went full-time…. At first I think, “what the crap… why not me?”  Then I think, “But then again… they are needed more…. and if they’re full-time and I’m not, then that’s 4 less people ahead of me on the list…”  ::sigh::  I just REALLY hope that there is going to be a full-time position for me when I graduate… I’ve been around since the beginning and if I don’t go full-time, I’ll have to quit part-time work even and find a full-time job to support me and my (hopefully) future wife… I REALLY don’t want to leave ministry…  COME ON GOD!!!  WHY DON’T YOU WORK ON MY TIME???!??!?!?! 

So anywho, I watched a story on CNN about Blogging… ya know… THIS whole shindig…. Xanga… Online Journals…. that’s called “Blogging” if ya don’t know… anywho, they kept talking about how this was SOOOOO high-tech and such an amazing wealth of opinions and knowledge… criticism… yadda yadda yadda…  it was quite entertaining watching non-techy people describe internet blogging…

OK, it’s almost 1am… gotta sleep eventually.  PEACE OUT FROM THIS SHOUT!

Mood:  Good…. good like a monkey…. swingin free from the trees….
Music:  Jack Johnson – Bubbletoes

Man… I found out I got screwed on my taxes…. hard…. My mom claimed me as a dependent… which… technically… I don’t think she’s allowed to anymore… unless I let her…  I don’t live at home more than 3 months a year… and I pay rent when I do… and I’m at school… paying all my own bills… all my own tuition… bah…  So anywho, being labeled as a dependent is REALLY hurting me!  I figured out my Federal Taxes… and get this… as we stand now, I owe $340!  I ran it again with the ONLY change being that I was NOT dependent and the difference?  I woulda gotten a refund of $360!!!  ok… difference?  $700 I’m out of…. OUCH!  I kinda needed that money for my college loans and future tuition that I’m 12,000 in debt on already since I’m paying for it all 100% by myself!  So where is my tax money?  In the hands of my Step-dad…. Will I be seeing it?  Probably not…. this sucks….. I only made 11,120 bucks last year…. that money was like… a months worth of pay for me!  ::sigh:: ah well…. I’m looking now on how to file for independent status…  I’m also screwed on financial aid situations cuz I have to report my mom and step-dad’s income along with mine for the federal aid… and they don’t pay me squat for school… I pay it all…. so…. there’s less aid cuz the gov’t assumes they’d help me…. bah.  I REALLY NEED TO BE INDEPENDENT!!!!!!!!!!  stupid paperwork…. 

ANYway, I thought the following was cool so I put it up here… this is for all you war-protesting, tree-huggin hippies out there.

“It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.”

    -Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, Sergeant, USMC

Mood:  Crappy… being broke with bills and knowing the money I’ve earned is out of my reach… sucks.
Music:  Counting Crows – Chelsea

OK ok… so I’m feeling better… but anyway, I wake up this morning and look outside…. and I see snow.  Yeah…. snow.  It went from 73 to snow in 1.5 days… welcome to BG…. maybe the pic should stay up a little longer!  ANYWAY, I’m back from class and I now must complete the following:

-Do my taxes
-File for Financial Aid
-Schedule Classes
-Complete my Senior Audit Papers

Doesn’t THAT sound exciting to everyone???!?!?!?!

First I’m gonna go shower… I smell like feet…

Mood:  ACK!  PAPERWORK IS ATTACKING ME!
Music:  Chris Tomlin – Here I Am To Worship

To commemorate the war effort in Iraq… my stomach and I are fighting a battle… and like the U.S.A…. it’s kicking my butt…. so I’m going to sleep… hopefully…  Stupid stomach….

Mood:  OUCH!
Music:  …. none really…. I’m going to bed!

I really should put up a new pic now…. the ice is pretty much gone…… …. … Hmmm… I need to think about it…    But I DO have one for Sarah to use…  hint hint…

Mood:  Crazy as a goat…. ?
Music:  3 Doors Down – Love Me When I’m Gone