It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a geeky young woman in possession of a glamorous video game industry job must spend her entire day sitting around playing video games while magically calling forth digital art assets with but a thought while waiting for the next game level to load.

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Yeah, right.

In reality, I probably played more games and produced more non-work-related art when I was stationed overseas in Germany as an enlisted Army peon.

Since becoming a grown up and having to deal with a 40 minute each way work commute, a game development work schedule, making my own meals, taking myself to the gym almost daily so I don’t turn into another fluffy American sheep chick, paying the bills, taking care of the house, spending time with friends, family, and feline hangers on, and keeping up with PDB and this blog, I’m lucky to get in any sort of creative work or brainless game time at all these days.

My game time has been limited to snatches of low-involvement puzzle games and Animal Crossing on the Nintendo DS while on a stationary bike or waiting in lines, beating Guitar Hero II on Medium difficulty in about 6 hours, getting through about half of Jade Empire in the two years I’ve owned it, and popping in Yourself Fitness about twice a week.

That is why I am so stupidly happy about the latest addition to my little corner desk at work: my cute little black Nintendo Game Cube which used to sit in the communal game station across the room, a small selection of GC games, my wireless Wavebird controller, and a small Samsung TV that I spotted abandoned on the breakroom floor next to the kitchen a few months ago. I figure that 4 months is more than enough time to establish that no one else wanted the poor thing, so I have given it a new home on my desk.

Now I have my own Game Cube/GBA player set up a mere 2 feet away from my computer keyboard and can finally play the stack of Zelda titles that I’ve been hoarding for the past three years.

It’s also a great incentive for me to get my workouts done in the mornings so I can spend my entire lunch hour blasting through Beyond Good & Evil and Chibi-Robo instead of schlepping to the workout room in my old apartment complex and doing make-up cardio.

I realize that this is a trivial matter in the grand scheme of things, but what is happiness if not a collection of trivial things?

TODAY’S WORKOUT
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TT Bodyweight Workout A (35-40 mins)

Half of P90X Plyometrics or YF Cardio workout (30 mins)