Brent Pirolli's

Not a whole lot going down in funky town… I was on duty wednesday…. nothing special… Classes suck… horrible schedule… my least favorite has to be the tuesday night 6:00pm-10:15pm class….   although the monday 8:30am-11:30am is a close second!  ::sigh::  Only 3 more semesters left….. 3 more…. I’m 5/8 done with school…..   It sounds better to say only 3 left than I’ve done 5 of 8….. THE GLASS HAS TO BE HALF FULL!!!!!!!!!!!

We lost 5 RAs this semester…. 5 of 18…. so now we’re bringing in 5 newbies…. …. that’s going to be TOUGH!  They’ve got a new job on hostile floors that are angry their RAs are gone…. They’re dropped in the middle of the year with virtually no training… man… that’s gotta be hard… I’m gonna try and help as much as I can, but that’s gotta suck!  I just hope we get the new RAs soon, cuz having only 13 here means that 13 of us do the work of 18…. and that sucks.  Extra work …. sucks.  HAHA.  There is no other way to put that.

OK, I’m tired.  Sleep is here, I must play host and welcome it.  Night.

Mood:  Keep on truckin….
Music:  Santana & Michelle Branch – The Game Of Love

I had fun in photoshop recently cuz I love the pic of Sarah and I but I hated the crappy background….   Yay for computers!

Anyway…. I’ve got classes starting back up today.  I really wish I could put my schedule on here…. Just so you all could see it.  It was pretty entertaining watching Sarah‘s jaw drop when she saw it. It’s pretty hectic.  Ah well, I’ve lived through worse.

Everyone moved back in the dorms yesterday and I have 4 new residents.  They all seem pretty cool cept one is a manic obsessive compulsive clean freak who is WAY too hyper for her own good…. I really can’t explain her in words…. but it’s kinda like watching Elmo…. pretending to be a cleaning lady…. on fire…  I wonder how long THAT room will handle itself without killing each other….

OK… off to class.  WORD!

Mood:  Tired…. stupid 8:30am classes….
Music:  Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane

OK OK… I had to do it… here’s pics from CedarCreek’s New Year’s formal thingie…

Here is a pic of Sarah and I… she’s so cute!

This is Brad and Katie.  Katie is Sarah‘s roommate.  They went with us and stuff…

My amigo and best friend since 3rd grade… Luke.  And as always his faithful sidekick and woman of nearly 4 years, Sara.  Yes… another Sara.

Luke insisted I ate a meatball… But I refused and looked like I was drunk instead…

Emily wanted me to take this pic…. Everyone thinks her and Matt are dating… they’re not.  This is just to throw everyone for a loop…. man it sure is fun though!

Another pic of my beautiful date and ever so awesome girlfriend Sarah!

A great Euchre game led to the women both ending up with cards in their ears… …. 9-9… In the barn… ya know…. I think we lost though. 

What would a New Year’s Eve party be like without Don dancin on a chair in the middle of the dance floor as he led the group in a very …. interesting… YMCA dance.  OWW OWWWW!

OK.  That’s all for me.  I gotta go buy books and stuff…. stupid school… makin me all broker… … who done need no education?  NOT ME!  That’s for sure…

Mood:  Silly like a goat…. again.
Music:  Collective Soul – Compliment

aww come on… you act like you actually READ this site…   OK FINE!  Here’s my update.  I’m back in BG now.  Came back on Friday for RA Training stuff…. ::sigh:: one more semester of this madness…. then I’m a FREEer MAN!

So what happened to the MohawkPettingZoo over break you ask…. I’ll tell you.  So sit back, relax, put on some mood music, grab a glass of wine… and light some candles…. for HERE…. is my break recap.

My break started out normal.  I went home.  After moving a carload of electronics (I can’t live without) and clothing (dirty laundry is great to take home… it’s free to wash!), I collapsed on my couch.

::SIDENOTE::  How do you spell couch?  “C…. O….. R….. …… ….. aaaaare you going to the mall later?”

Then I proceeded to spend the next few days in mayhem as CedarCreek owned me for the Christmas Eve services.  Yeah… we did a SWEET service if I may say so myself.  (Shameless self promotion)  Then some 80 year old lady slipped on a candle in the parking lot…. landed on her back… and went to the hospital for christmas… On the downside, the family was really mad and blamed us…. (no lawsuits that I know of….)  On the upside, the Judges gave her a 9.5 which included the .3 deduction for the bad landing.  … …. MAN that was WRONG!  I’m a jerk….

SO after that shindig, CedarCreek officially closes the offices from christmas eve through January 1st, but since we had services at the end of December, I still had to work.    BAH!  But after that Sunday’s services I packed up and trucked it down to Mason, OH to see my wonerful and apparently blind (she’s still with me) girlfriend Sarah!  Man I love her…. Just don’t understand why she stays by a bum like myself.  None the less, I met her brother Josh and his very cool new bride Erin.  Josh basically gave me the “older brother of the girlfriend” treatment.  Complete with the underbody wash and wax…. but whatever… I’d do the same thing to my sister’s boyfriends….   Erin is really cool.  She’d smack Josh around when he was giving me a hard time… heh heh.

So to sum up the Mason trip, I cleaned house at board games and won 2 out of 3 euchre games with Sarah against Josh and Erin…. and 2 out of 3 head to head matches with Josh in The Simpsons Road Rage for PS2…. GREAT GAME!  Then I hooked up Sarah’s dad’s surround sound system in the basement so that it works right…. He was happy!    Scoring points with the rents….  HAHA!

Then Sarah and I drove the 3 hours back north for New Year’s Eve.  We went to a formal dance…. tux and all…. That was fun.  We welcomed the new year with 120 other people.  I got all kinds of fun pics on my digital camera too…. yay for that.

ON January 2nd… I got my wisdom teeth out!!!!!  YEAH… THAT’S what I wanted to do over break!  What sucks is that they apparently used a new technique on me.  They knocked me out with an IV, and then proceeded to beat the snot outta me with a baseball bat and a sledgehammer.  I didn’t stop bleeding for a good 15 hours and then I couldn’t open my mouth more than an inch for about four days.  Yeah…. let’s talk pain.  HAHA… So today is the ninth day since surgery and I still can’t eat normal.  I still have my stiches and have decided that my jaw just sucks.  Apparently this was the conclusion that the surgeon came to when he was cracking my three impacted teeth in to pieces to pull them out of my jaw…. ….. OUCH!

So the next week was spent in bed.  Recovering.  At least the first two days Sarah was brave enough to stay up in Oregon at a friends house and come over during the day to take care of me…. I say brave enough cuz she was the soul that kept changing out my blood soaked gause and stuff…. ewww… it grosses ME out!

Then I eventually went back to work and stuff… worked my butt off on the computer network installing 20 new drops and stuff.  I lived on a diet of Slim Fast shakes and pudding for a week… I’ve learned the following:

Slim Fast is actually decent tasting if you know the right flavors.  Observe.

Banana = Great tasting banana drink with no chalk taste
Chocolate = Decent tasting chocolate shake with slight chalkiness
French Vanilla = Liquid Rat Poison with sidewalk chalk dissolved in it

But all 3 are really healthy!   WHOAH WHOAH!!! I just realized… I’m discussing Slim Fast Shakes… Let’s rap this up quick!

The end of that week I went back to BG.  I rearranged my room…. And that … is now.    So I was busy.  Sarah gets back with the rest of the residents on Sunday.  I’m happy to see her… and the rest of my friends I haven’t seen in awhile… Kamando I’m lookin in your direction!   OK… off to hopefully get a good night’s rest for once in a week and a half!  Stupid teeth.

Mood:  Talkative (like you didn’t know)
Music:  Refreshments – Banditos

Yay for Christmas…. Boo for 12 inches of wet snow that had to be shoveled… a lot.  Yay for getting to see Sarah and her family in 4 days!  Boo that it’s 4 days still…

Mood:  Happy and silly… like a goat…?
Music:  Five Iron Frenzy – Gotta Get Up (It’s Christmas Morning)

So I’m back at home now… the computer is all set up… and I’m bored.  And Sarah is 240 miles away….   That sucks.  ANYWAY, I’ll keep decently busy in the coming weeks…  Check it:

Monday – CedarCreek’s Christmas Eve practice
Tuesday – CedarCreek’s Christmas Eve services
Wednseday – Christmas!
Thursday – Work for this weekend services
Friday – Relax… maybe.
Sat/Sun – Services at CedarCreek

Then I’m leaving that Sunday to drive down to Mason to visit Sarah and her family for their Christmas stuff…   Then Sarah is coming back up here for the New Year’s Party… Then Jan. 2nd I get my wisdom teeth out!!!  AHHH!

I go back to school on the 10th… classes start the 13th.    Too short of a break.  BAH!  Ah well, I’ll get to be with my Sarah sooner and that’s a happy thing!  OK, I’m hungry and it’s past midnight… time to EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mood:  Tired from moving and unpacking and missing Sarah 
Music:  Reliant K – Sadie Hawkins

What the heck happened?  Where did everyone go?  No one comments anymore…   Was there a mass exodus of college students away from xanga that no one told me about?

Mood:  Goofy
Music:  Goo Goo Dolls – Name

So I’m putting together this multimedia/live video proposal for CedarCreek… Do you have any idea how nerve racking it is to try and set up a system to purchase that is going to cost over $30,000 dollars when in reality, you know very little about what you’re doing?  Not that I’m clueless… I know more than anyone else there does (thus the reason they picked me), but still… I’m a 20-year old college punk!  Come on!  Man… responsibility is fun.   I just can’t wait until it’s all purchased, installed, and working… and everyone will say, “Good work Brent.”  Then I’ll be all happy and stuff…. I just got off the phone with Rob Kasper from Roscor Inc. in Cincinnati, OH.  He’s helping me figure out what all I’m going to need…  We’ll buy most of our stuff through them too.  They’re good people.  It is nice to find a company that really cares about consumers.  “We’d love to have your business and I want to do anything I can to make this process easier for you.”  Good man that Rob… good man.  He even offered to set up a demo for me on some equipment that I had questions about…. not bad considering he’d have to convince the manufacturer to lend him a free system!  HAHA!  I settled for a phone call instead. 

Anyway, I’m half way through exams and I have to go play rummy now… cuz… Sarah is IMing me… and demanding …. hahaha… ok. word.

Mood:  Relaxed.
Music:  Sheryl Crow – If It Makes You Happy  (I have NO idea why this is in my head…)

Joke-o-the Day

This guy was in the army and as they were rationing out weapons, they ran out with him having nothing.  The general handed him a broom and said, “Son… whenever you fight, aim this and say, ‘bangity bang bang’ or if they get close ‘stabbity stab stab’ and they’ll die.”  He thought it was crazy, but sure enough it worked in battle… rows upon rows of enemies were falling dead from his broom… then there was him…. the one guy who wouldn’t fall… “Bangity bang bang!!!  Stabity stab stab!!!”  nothing… slowly the enemy approached… eyes fixated on his opponent… moving so slowly… not falling, unaffected by the broom.  As he got closer and closer, the soldier couldn’t understand why this guy wouldn’t die… Then he heard the enemy whispering…. “tankity tank tank… tankity tank tank…”

Mood:  tired… time to nap.
Music:  A screaming guitar version of “O come, O come, Emanuel”

so… uhh… I should really be in bed right now.. since I have to get up in 6 hours… but instead I’m writing this…. mostly just to say, “Natz… I am worried about you.  er…. you and snow princess you… there is such a thing as multiple personality disorder… and you may have it. )  commenting on my entries with both names…. how strange child…. how strange…   You’re fun.  Thanks for being fun.

Mood:  In trouble…   Sarah’s yellin at me for not being in bed… she just caught me…
Music:  Oval Opus – Gotta Let Go