Happy New Year, everyone!  I apologize for having forgotten to post challenges in more than a month.  I give you three new challenges: Postponed But Not Forgotten by razzamatazz73, Model by KaraThis, and Stuck and Not Alone by flonkertonxx. 

Just to be clear, if you've posted challenges without sending them to us via email, I have had to delete them since it goes against our policy.  We want to give everyone a chance to have their challenge featured on the main page to give it the attention it deserves, so we ask everyone to email us their challenge and not post them directly.

Stay tuned for a special challenge later this month!

Firstly, I have seen people have been adding challenges themselves. As we have mentioned many times, we ask people email us their ideas instead so I have removed those challenges posted, and added them to our list.

Two new challenges:

1) Jan's New Job. (and it's not a boob job. ;)) This challenge was suggested by belsum. Jan takes a new job, and it's in the Dunder Mifflin Business Park. What's her new gig?

2) Jim To The Rescue. This challenge was suggested by Jenninthecity. Pam's a modern woman who can take care of herself, but sometimes Jim just can't help himself. Someone's bugging Pam and Jim comes to the rescue.

By the way, we also have old Halloween challenges in case you are looking for ideas for Halloween-themed stories: Haunted House and Zombie Attack.

With just one week before the premiere (Woohoo!), I've added two new challenges: Kevin's Wedding, submitted by Nanreg, and Proust Questionnaire, as proposed by Raj.

As always, if you have challenge ideas, feel free to email us by clicking the "contact us" button or post them on our boards.

A poll about whether or not MTT should get a new URL is posted here .

Unfortunately, you will need to register there in order to vote on the poll. I was unable to get the poll module here to work sadly. :(

Two new challenges this week:

1) Let's Get Physical submitted by Jess: Dunder Mifflin has a new employee gym. All types of hilarity and locker room awkwardness ensue. Of course Michael probably wears something ridiculous and ends up hurting himself.

2) Summer Jobs submitted by Cousin Mose: What did Dunder-Mifflin employees do for work as teenagers or during college? Did Jim have a paper route? Did Dwight sell beets door to door? Did Angela ever work at Hot Dog on a Stick? It's summertime...go get a job!

There were quite a few questions about the ribbons at the TWoP boards, so I thought I would post my clarifications here too.

The moderators at MTT, most often me, award the ribbons you see besides some stories. We don't have any specific criteria to do so. We don't meet in committee to do this. I pick stories that I think are worth reading, but people are free to disagree with my picks. In fact, I expect that many people do. I will read many different types of stories, but certain types appeal more to my tastes than others so that certainly influences my choices. Reviews are your way as readers to lavish praise on those stories that you think are worth reading. You can also take time to recommend those stories to others on message boards or on your blog.

As xoxoxo mentioned on TWoP, the ribbons are just a perk for the admins of the archive, probably one of the few fun things to do amongst all the work this archive generates for us. I don't want this to turn into the Toby to my Michael Scott (as in "Every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way.")

I hope that clarifies some things. :)

Two new challenges to propose to our writers this week: Valentine Poker (submitted by Too Late Kev) and All About a Peripheral Character (suggested by McGigi).

Don't forget, there are plenty of challenges just waiting to be answered such as Wedding Week (submitted by sorano), Arabian Nights (suggested by Susan), Paintball (suggested by lizzy559).

Today's new challenge was submitted by Lizzy559: Paintball.