i'm a pixel here, myself

My Wii came today! It was just mailed on Monday, and it came from Brooklyn, so that's pretty damn impressive for the US Postal Service. ::gives them a gold star:: Roommate E is now hooked on Wii Sports and I've started the new Zelda game, Twilight Princess, but the first part of that is just the typical "get to know the environment and how to move around it" of recent video game RPGs. Anyway, between the Wii itself, the extra controller and controller adapter I picked up on eBay, and the Zelda game, I'm out a hefty chunk of change, so it may be a little while before I start buying old games to run on it (it's backwards-compatible with GameCube, and their online store has old NES, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and N64 games available for download, which is AWESOME), but this system is SO worth it. It's a lot of fun! And even A, who is not a video game person AT ALL, was waving the controller and adapter at the screen trying to play the boxing game :D

I got a recruitment email from Gary Coleman. A different one, I'm sure, but it's a bizarre feeling. I wonder how he feels, being named similarly to the pint-sized star of Diff'rent Strokes.

My local boss wants to talk to me about what happens when the grant runs out. He's mentioned the grant I'm helping him put together now, and seems to think I'm staying on. Which... I might have to do, if I don't have a job lined up. Still, being paid is better than not being paid, and having health insurance is doubly so. We shall see what tomorrow's meeting holds.

Gary Coleman is going to pass along my resume. I am still amused as all get-out at that.

So, the talk with the boss was good, except for one thing: instead of my unused vacation time trailing off at the end, they're paying it to me all at once, so I don't get to drag out the health insurance, too. :-/ There's the option to get on another grant to extend my working here another month, but... no. I really don't want to do that. If I'm sticking here through the end of March, I'm taking my goddamn severance pay (another month's pay, just for being "laid off"!) and sitting around on my ass. Or maybe faking my way into the gym here every day and trying to actually lose some weight (though A did say, post-concert, "those jeans really make your ass look amazing" which was nice to hear).

Still no word from any of the jobs I've had interviews with. Time to be the squeaky wheel and start calling them on a regular basis, I suppose.

In fandom-related news, I hear Jensen is cripplingly shy? And Jared changes burnt-out lightbulbs for Sandy and her roommates? The biggest surprise to me, I think, is that these things were surprises. Oh, boys. ♥

Noted as without-comment as possible:

[Pete Wentz rates anal sex a "10"]