I’m dead tired after what has been a really long week, but I do have two things to share with you.

1) If you didn’t listen to the podcast this week, you didn’t hear me say that I’m now working for AOL. That’s right, Weblogs, Inc., which a blogging network that AOL bought a little while ago, has hired me to write for one of their blogs, WoW Insider, which is a daily blog about news pertaining to the online roleplaying game called, yes, World of Warcraft. I can just see you rolling your eyes right now at my nerdiness.

But it’s ok, because not only are they paying me, but that means that I’m getting paid to write about playing World of Warcraft. See that? All those hours I spent way back when are finally paying off. Not paying off by a lot, I’ll grant, but paying off nonetheless.

Now, if you know nothing about the game, you won’t get much from the blog. There’s a lot of jargon, and insider info, and really, stuff that no one cares about except for people who play World of Warcraft (there’s six million of them in the world, but if I know my audience, you probably aren’t one). But trust me when I say it’s great for me. I feel like I’m finally getting paid to write about something I actually want to write about, and that is a terrific thing.

2) Also, if you’re in Chicago, turn on WTTW 11 (the public television station) tomorrow sometime between noon and 4pm. They’re doing their yearly (?) fundraising drive, and I’ve somehow volunteered myself to be one of those people answering phones and collecting donations in the background. Sounds like fun, right?

Also, I hear they’re going to be showing a marathon of BBQ University, and host Stephen Reichlen (who I’ve actually seen in person before, long story) is supposed to be BBQing in the parking lot. So that sounds cool, too.

I really doubt that this will happen, but if I can somehow get video of myself answering phones on WTTW, I’ll put it up here for all to see, just so you people in cities not Chicago can check it out.

That’s all. Time to go home now, and sleep the sleep of the… sleepy.