Nobody let me near a Borders again. My bank account hates me.

[apocalypsos]

Yesterday after spending an hour at Panera writing (longhand because I couldn't bring my laptop with me since I'd have to leave it in my car during work hours -- *sigh*) I went to Borders and ended up buying my second new notebook in a week and yet another puzzle book I don't need. I almost bought another journal with a pretty red leather cover and a lot of pages with college-ruled lines and that swirly watercolor design on the side, but it was fifty bucks. *covets*

This weekend I'm not allowed out to anywhere but Panera because I'm so far behind on The Sorcerers of Scranton. If I had brains I'd clean my apartment today so I don't sit around this weekend trying to procrastinate by telling myself I need to scrub the bathroom floor or something.

And now the wonders of television ...

I only got to download last week's because it was the only torrent I could find and it took me a few days to even get that, but mostly all I can say is that I'm starting to love Alex best out of everybody and I really want him to just give up all thoughts of plastic surgery and realize that he really would make an awesome pediatrician or OB-GYN.

Also, the fact that apparently McSteamy's cock heals all makes me happy in a weird way that has nothing to do with wanting to sleep with him, because honest to God I have no desire to go anywhere near him. Maybe it's that his cooties are probably so big they fall under local leash laws. I don't know.

*****

This is how stupid I am. I own both seasons of the British version. I know full well that the cast and crew were in the area this Public Drunkenness Day St. Patrick's Day filming the parade for an episode for this season that we haven't seen yet. And yet I was still dumb enough to say to someone last night at work, "I hope they don't close the Scranton branch!" *headsmack*

First off, the big thing and my best and favorite thing about the entire episode?

Jim has been sending Dwight faxes from his future self?! OMG YES. See, it's not just that he's a pretty face, it's that he's adorably hilarious and I want to KEEP HIM.

Secondly, the lunch discussion made me laugh and groan simultaneously. Laugh, because they mentioned Cooper's which is pretty much my favorite restaurant in the area because it's AWESOME seafood. (My parents went to the reception for the wedding of the owner's son and my mom brought home the menu. Dude, it was like thirteen courses and I would have punched my mom in the face just to have half of them.) Groan, because Angela made the bitchface about having to drive all the way to Dunmore when Dunmore is maybe a five minute drive from where the office is supposedly located, assuming it were really in the building they've shown it being in on the show. Yes, I really am just this dorky.

Third, I am first and foremost a Jim/Pam shipper. I love them with a passion I currently only save for the smutty pairing I will never ever EVER see on my television in that one show that absolutely doesn't have the brotherfucking, damn it. But at the same time, if they can't be together, then my God, can I please have Jim with Karen and Pam with New and Improved Bearded Roy? Because Karen with a crush on Jim is the cutest thing on the planet and I'm living vicariously through her and Roy knows he did wrong and he's so hesitant about approaching her now and something about the beard and the nervousness makes me want to throw him on the ground and do naughty things to him. Man, I don't even like beards on guys, but on Roy that one is DOING THINGS TO ME.

I'm horribly tempted to write fic where Jim and Pam aren't together and Jim marries Karen and Pam marries Roy and they all pine.

*****

Awesome episode, with all of the thinking alike and concentrating on the hunt even though they're in police custody and their plans. They have plans just in case they get separated! Well, of COURSE they do. What I'd really love to write except I can't because I have to NaNo see in a fic is John teaching them what to do in an emergency when they're kids. Normal kids get told to go to a cop if they get lost -- can you imagine what John must have told them as kids?

Dean in handcuffs. GUH. I don't really have much of a reaction other than that, because he's in handcuffs and he can't get out. Well, he could but he has to stay in them because he's in a police station and just ... just ... just. *dies*

I wish I had a more coherent response to the whole episode, but the most coherent thought I had all episode that wasn't flailing like crazy was, "EEEE! Karen's Diane from Jake 2.0!" And then lots of pointing and squeaking and a quick sad face because I miss Jake 2.0 lots and lots. And also, "world's second biggest ball of twine"? It's not a shoutout, but no one said I couldn't pretend it was. ;)

And Dean likes frisky women! HEEEEEEE.

[Poll #864859]

The pea soup line was annoying, though. Bad writers. No cookie!

EDIT: OMG, this is awesome. Office Space recut as a horror/thriller.

Comments

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that I'm starting to love Alex best out of everybody and I really want him to just give up all thoughts of plastic surgery and realize that he really would make an awesome pediatrician or OB-GYN.

::nods:: his arc and the preston/christina arc facinates me the most at this point. Especially with what we're learning about Alex's past, it's this interesting push-pull between what he has been (and what he might actually excel at) and what he wants to be (and what currently makes everyone hate him).

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

bah im two weeks behind on Grey's AND i missed the most recent Office (the one before that is recorded...)

i'm also behind on THREE eps of OTH (and i probably recorded Grey's over the most recent one)

and i missed the pea soup line! i heard him say she looked familar. but i heard nothing about pea soup.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean...

I was all Jim/Pam... but, but... I LOVE Karen... The shooting Jim in the back of the head during a video game and the paperclip explosion...

Yeah. I'm torn...

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

I almost died laughing at the Office Space trailer...

It would have been all your fault.

[roseredathena.livejournal.com]

Dean in handcuffs + that little grunt when he was shoved up against the wall = Total. Pron-fic. Fodder. =D

As to the pea soup thing, I so agree. Nice that they acknowledged her movie and all but dude, what a totally forced line.