lily_handmaiden

I made this one at the beginning of the summer.

Wow, you guys. This school year is going to kill me dead. I'm currently overloading classes (yes, yes, that was my choice-- but, I mean, how could I not take Stage Combat?), doing my Independent Study, preparing for the GRE, and I've been cast as Tiresias in Oedipus, and the ITC is doing two M15M performances at the Chautauqua Festival tomorrow. YOU SEE WHY I HAVE NOT UPDATED?

Still, I was not going to let September go by without a single entry, especially after last night's amaaaazing season premiere of The Office. I will do a spoiler cut, because I learned last night that sometimes people you would assume watched the show immediately did, in fact, not.

I'm just so happy. I've barely stopped smiling all day. JIM AND PAM! All of the plots were hilarious and excellent ("We need to find the cause of the curse that hit Meredith with my car."), but this is the one I'll be addressing right now.
So, I couldn't watch it until about midnight becuase I had back-to-back rehearsals. (One of which I began with, "Okay, guys, let's do this fast; pick up your cues and hurry your entrances, because I have to watch The Office.") I got back from those and my roommate, Bethany, was inscrutable. I could read nothing on her face, nor in her tone, nor in the fact that she deemed it "a good episode." Well done, Bethany. I couldn't have managed it.
So, the episode started and I was so eager to find out what had happened relevant to a certain plotline over the summer that I almost fast-forwarded through the credits! Gasp! I know, I know, but I kid you not.
Then when we come back from credits and commercials, the world is a complete, joyful place, because Pam and Jim are standing next to each other at her desk! Smiling! And laughing! And it's wonderfully like old times and, dare I hope? more than old times. I was ecstatic to see the team back together, and I was thinking, "Okay, this could mean something (they look so happy!), it could not. Either way, at least you have this. At least things are waaay better now. You can live wtih just this." Then the did their talking heads, and yes, in retrospect, they are clearly lying their asses off, but at that moment it was not at all clear. "Are they lying? Is this true, because if they try to pull... No, remember, they're at least friends again. Zen." I was with Kevin all the way through that first half, believe me. But I did manage to almost convince myself that friendship was fine over the course of that half. Then it does the shot of Pam pulling away in her car: "Oh, she's going to meet Jim and he'll get in the car! Oh, wait... Not, then? Oh, crap. Is she... is she crying again? Come on, writers, don't put me through this again. Oh, no, WAIT! THERE HE IS! YES! AND--" And then, my friends, I squeed. Out loud. I almost never actually make the sound out loud (the only other time I really remember is the Gilmore Girls episode "Raincoats and Recipes;" you know the part), but there were two very distinct cries of "EEEEEEEEE!" coming from my room at that moment, and neither of them were Bethany.
The way they revealed this knowledge to Jim and Pam was brilliant. I always love when the camera crew becomes a character, and this was... awesome. It sort of supports the idea that they are really in Jim and Pam's corner, because... well, they never did that for Dwangela, you know? And the reaction. Deer caught in headlights. Pam with her honesty: "I was just giving Jim a ride home because... we're dating." And the LOOK on Jim's FACE! A look that goes from not-unpleasant surprise, to that little-boy grin, and then he's blushing like crazy, and Pam is beaming, and they're both grinning like idiots and making googly eyes at each other, and the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day. Have I mentioned that John and Jenna both win Erin Awards? They so totally do.
And then there was Shirtless Jim, and I almost fell over backwards.
The rest of the episode was full of wonderful moments, and I grinned bigger at each one, and exclaimed over them... The hand-holding! The conspiring! The laughing! The googly eyes! The lamp-purchasing! I just... wow. WOW! You guys! Jim and Pam are together, and they are happy. Swaying is dancing. It's like, second drink!

So, I have jumped on the ball and made "Fun Run" icons. Again, under a cut.

Hee hee. Those who have seen/ will see our "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone in 15 Minutes" know the tone in which I hear this word said. ("Ah-busted.")

a pretty base So, why d'you think Pam and Jim are smiling like that?

Also, around the time that Whitney created the Jurisfiction facebook group, I decided to make these icons of Marianne Dashwood. Text from Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.

I used Kate Winslet's Marianne because that, to my mind, is the definitive version.

And, finally, Michael has gotten me hooked on the completely awesome trailer for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. In which Cate Blanchett is hardcore and Clive Owen is oh so hot. This is the result of watching it whilst in a Star Wars mood. (I basically decided that the whole thing could conceivably be dubbed over footage from The Phantom Menace and still make sense.)