The Rode NTG-2 is a great mic. It may work well for you depending on your room acoustics. Ray Ortega (@podcasthelper) just posted a video on YouTube where he demonstrates the NTG-1, which is the same mic without an internal battery. Check that out.

I'm partial to having a mic stuck in my face because the sound can never be better, but eating the mic can give sound worse than a boom mic out of the shot.

Lots of people are using headset mics because they are not obtrusive, but the good ones (like DPA) are very expensive.