The countdown is over...

But I still haven't seen The Office.

I miss The Office #3.

I've realized many of the clips from The Office I used to watch are not there anymore. People have probably taken them down because of the WPA writer's strike. We should not be watching The Office for free when the writers are not getting paid for it. I did find a link to write a letter to the people in charge to tell them to end the strike. You can find it here. They have a template letter you can send. I wrote my own, asking them to please tell me what happens to all my favorite characters.

Clips I would post if they were still on YouTube and there was not writer's strike:

• Andy singing "Rainbow Connection" to Pam in a high falsetto voice with a banjo. Favorite part: when he sings ainbowray onnectioncay in Pig Latin.
• One of the cold openers from Season 4 when they are having a meeting and Michael is talking about something really lame but everyone else is watching the dvd screensaver, wishing and hoping and cheering when it gets close to and finally bounces out of the actual corner.
• Jim as Dwight/Dwight as Jim
• Andy singing "Take a Chance on Me" to Angela. (yes, I love Andy and his singing.)

So I am going to stop posting about how I miss The Office. I really thought the strike would be over by January. It is not over. I thought if I wrote about it more maybe it would help it come back. Bring awareness, you know. Or at least help me deal with it. Maybe I'll start a new campaign to bring awareness to things I care about. I'll call the first one, "Walmart, the whore of all the earth" or "If everything is made in China, where will the Americans work?" Something like that. I'm obviously not the best of writers. I'll think about it. Oh, I also have learned the health benefits of taking iodine. Maybe I'll write about that. I take Kelp for an iodine suppliment. For the best effect about 40mg a day. To read more on the benefits of iodine, visit here. We have no iodine in our diets. It can prevent cancer, obesity, cure all Thyroid problems, etc. Amazing.

I miss The Office #2.

please give me The Office back.



I've been watching Freaks and Geeks as a substitute.



On a separate note, it is really creepy that when I post something on my blog about someone or something like a t.v. program I get comments back from the people who's job it is to regulate the internet. Like my last post, for example, and the cat lady one. Whose job is it to do that kind of thing? One day I'm just going to post a list of companies or programs and see who responds. I'm not worried about people tracking my comments of The Office, because no one is working there right now.

My Office Confession

This past weekend I realized, once I was out of my house and talking to people besides my parents, that other people don't know as much about The Office and the actors on it as I do. I was even called an "Officephile" (thanks Cole...). I hadn't realized how out of hand it was getting and I hearby proclaim that I am going to become a normal The Office watcher and limit my fan following to watching the shows on Thursday nights and the deleted scenes on nbc.com. No more visiting the The Office fansite I used to frequent. I wasted a lot of time on that. No more! I am now becoming a normal person. Designing an Office t-shirt every week? Who does that?

Office t-shirt for Oct. 25

Here is my Office t-shirt for today. It is very similar, style-wise to the last one. Actually I should have made all my shirts for the season last week, since I was so gung-ho about it all. I kind of tried with this. You might not be able to tell that the birds are actually Angela's cat Sprinkles' head. I didn't try very hard on the writing.

Office t-shirt for Oct. 18

Every week when I watch The Office, I wish I had an Office t-shirt to wear. But the shirts on nbc.com are boring (and have bad type). My attempt on my stencil shirt is cool, but now that I love every character, my infatuation with Jim has lost its magic. So what do I do? Make a shirt with all of the characters on it? No. Not cool. Instead, I've decided to use my time to create an imaginary shirt that I would wear every week. This is my shirt for this week. And I wish I was wearing it right now.

This isn't a quote I thought of. I read it on a comment from nbc.com after the summer updates (I think). I can't find that comment again, so I can't credit the genius who said it, but whoever you are, thanks for the quote. It is a combination from The Job when Michael told Jim a guy at corporate was named "Beardy" and when Dwight said, "There's a new sheriff in these offices, and his name is me." Now that Ryan is at corporate with a beard, he is the new beardy.