Date: April 02, 2007 08:40 pm Title: Sparkling cider is very good.
Ok, the Independence Day & Armegeddon bit is freaking hilarious! (HooHusband has a knack for finding Armegeddon on cable any time, day or night, it's spooky!)
And DMCP totally putting the bartender in his place -- dawesome!
Finally -- I cannot BELIEVE you ended this chapter there, and THEN you go & tease us with the promise of smut! After all I've done for you!!!
Author's Response: Haha, Armageddon is ALWAYS on! And yet, I always watch it. It's a sickness. I promise the smut will be up tomorrow, I would never want to let you down lisahoo! :)
Date: April 02, 2007 08:39 pm Title: Sparkling cider is very good.
Are you fucking KIDDING me? I hate you right now! I was totally hoping to get some secks-u-al resolution here! And who is it?? Jim? Ryan? OMG, the suspense is killing me!
I also love how you completely captured the drunken stream-of-consciousness conversations that happen when you've had a few too many. Also? Dwight Schrute is a really, really cute drunk! Ah! I can't believe I just said that, but I'm convinced that he is now!
(I kind of see Drunk!Dwight as a less delirious version of himself in The Injury. "Awwww... Pam." Hee.)
OK, seriously. Bring on the smut. I will take anything. You're looking at a desperate woman here.
Author's Response: I thought concussion Dwight was so adorable that now that is pretty much how I picture him drunk :) I'm sorry that I left it hanging, but I promise it'll be worth it!! (I hope, haha)
Date: April 02, 2007 08:38 pm Title: Sparkling cider is very good.
I'm kind of new to fanfic but I just have to say I love Hey Jealousy! By far my favorite! I love Dwight offering to 'take care of' Bill! <>
I can't wait to see the next chapter!
Author's Response: Thank you! That is so great to hear, the next chapter will be up tomorrow, cross my heart :)
Date: April 02, 2007 08:36 pm Title: Sparkling cider is very good.
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
You so conquered Drunk!Dwight (a formidable challenge to be sure :D), presidential speeches, Angela buying garlic, aaaaaaaaaa, and you should be writing Karen for the show.
HA! suck on that halpert!
The picture is awesome.
good job!
Author's Response: Thank you for that dawesome review!! I'm so glad you liked drunk!Dwight, hee!
Date: April 02, 2007 08:33 pm Title: Sparkling cider is very good.
Oh, oh, oh! Who is it?? Frodo or Jim?? I'm all aquiver! Hehe.
I got embarassingly excited when I saw that you updated. My boyfriend gave me a 'look'...
I love the bit with Ryan kissing her in front of Jim (damn, what did they talk about in that bathroom?!) and Karen going all high school about the tongue. It was great! :) I can't wait for more!
Author's Response: Hehe thank you so much! I'm glad you are excited about it and the next chapter will definitely be up tomorrow :)
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 08:19 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Holy frickin crap! What went on in that bathroom?? What is going on with Jim?? This whole story is just too frickin good and I cannot believe a tiny tiny part of me is rooting for Pam & Ryan (just in the story, not the show) but I love that Jim is jealous and that Dwight and Angela have admited it. Wonderful wonderful.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! You'll find out soon I promise ;)
Date: April 02, 2007 07:36 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Ah! I'm going insane! I need more!
I HAVE to know what happens!
Author's Response: Hee, thank you! Ask and ye shall receive ;)
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 04:47 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
I would like you to know that I signed up for an MTT account specifically to comment on this fic. I love it. I love everything about it. Seriously. Awesome.
It has also made me realize that as much of a JAMshipper as I am, I think I am moreso a pamshipper - I just want her to be happy, and if Ryan is the one to get her there so be it! What are we calling them? pryan?
Author's Response: Wow, thank you! I really appreciate that you went to all the trouble! I am definitely a Pam shipper myself, she just needs some happiness in her life, no matter who its with :)
Date: April 02, 2007 03:59 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Wow, this is getting *really* interesting. I can't wait to read whether Pam was feeling relief or disappointment. I certainly would be done wanting Jim after this outing.
Author's Response: Me either ;) Thanks so much!
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 02:44 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
First of all, my reaction to updates of this has evolved from excited to realived. Today kind of sucked and this made it all better. This may be my favorite chapter so far. Ryan is so dreamy, Michael asked Stanley to sing "Ebony and Ivory", drunk Dwight is so sweet, I love Karen and Pam as friends(why could the writers not have gone this route?). I am really curious what Jim said to Ryan though in the bathroom (in the adjoining urinals!). Ok, I've written too much. Awesome job as usual!
Author's Response: I'm so glad that I could somehow help your sucky day! Hopefully I'll have more up tonight/early tomorrow :)
Date: April 02, 2007 01:32 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
I just registered on the site so I could let you know how much I'm enjoying this story! I don't know why I was so surprised that it was Jim who found Pam & Ryan and not Karen, but I was, and it was great!
Author's Response: Oh wow, thanks! That's so cool that you registered, I really really appreciate your comment :) Hope to hear from you again!
Date: April 02, 2007 12:18 pm Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Hee I now I actually want Pam and Ryan to get together.
Dwight and Angela are so cute! And so are Michael and Jan.
And Mulder and Scully did get together on the X-Files! ;) Or was Dwight just exceedingly drunk?
Author's Response: Just exceedingly drunk ;) I'll clarify in the next chapter for sure! Thank you so much!
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 11:51 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
SDGHFDFGHJ. :D
Author's Response: Thanks! hehe :)
Date: April 02, 2007 10:38 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
UMMM. I don't know what to say because this chapter has basically blown my mind. It's so...perfect, really, how she's finding herself through someone who isn't Jim and isn't Roy and is outside her "norm". Wonderful, wonderful.
Seriously, don't listen to anyone but me (and bennie, i guess) and just keep doing your thang. Don't mess with perfection, in other words. Thanks? Thanks. :D
Author's Response: Hee, I will definitely keep listening to you guys! You are so great, seriously, so thank YOU fwf! And can I mention that you're newest completely MADE my day??? Loved every word.
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 10:09 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
I just read this for the first time..!! The Ryan thing is kinda freeking me out at the moment, but I trust you. I can trust you right?
Author's Response: Well, I make no promises but hopefully you will continue to read anyways ;)
Date: April 02, 2007 09:19 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
<claps hands gleefully> LOVEloveLOVEloveLOVE!
And I really, REALLY want to know what was said in the little boys' room.
Author's Response: Hee, thank you so so much! More to come soon I hope :)
Date: April 02, 2007 08:57 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Yikes, this is just great. Ryan or Jim... who do I want Pam to end up with? I think at this point, it's RYAN!!! Update soon! Catching up on this totally made my Monday :)
Author's Response: Woot! Team Ryan :) Thanks so much!
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 08:18 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
I was trying to wait until my lunch break to read this, but I just couldn't hold out the extra hour, so. Yeah. I have to say, I hate you a little bit. But only because this story is like my crack. I bounce when I see it's updated, and then I devour it in like ten seconds, then I'm SAD because I have to WAIT. And I do not want to wait. And then I get even more sad, because I realize that everytime we get a new chapter we are a chapter closer to this being *sob* over. But I love it so, so much.
And its not Roy’s callused fingers that are on her skin, or Jim’s chapped lips on hers, and she isn’t lost in that drunken, lonely haze that she was in with that guy from Ryan’s business school. His lips are soft in the way that Jim’s couldn’t be, and his eyes are blue in the way that Roy’s just weren’t.
I cannot believe that you have gotten me to ship Pryan. CANNOT BELIEVE. But I do. I totally squeed when they kissed(I'm at work, just so we're clear. Generally insurance agents in Florida do not squee while quoting home insurance.) True story. That was thisclose to giving me goosebumps. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Oh, and I'm totally getting my rolodex out and contacting my Hollywood peeps. IT'S ON. (also, longest comment ever, I'm on lj as starblossom56 and I'd love to friend you if you have an lj. Feel free to add me if you do. :D)
Author's Response: Pryan shipping! Hooray! Hehehe. Weren't the other insurance agents excited to hear that Ryan and Pam made out? No? Yeah, probably not, haha. We're going to need to move to LA to get this project off the ground, but first I added you as a friend on LJ ;) My name on there is mozartsfriend, so you should definitely friend me :)
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 08:16 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
I actually read this last night and I tried to put together a proper sentence so that I could review this, but it just wasn't happening. So, I think I'm ready now.
OMG. This is so good I can't even handle it. First of all, I cheered when Pam left the closet and that she was in a hurry to do so. I felt bad because Ryan wouldn't look at her after that, and we never really see Ryan visibly...care? Or something?
And the scene in Pam's cabin still has me in a permanent state of askdjfa;ksljdf;kas. The kiss made my stomach all twisty and I have to agree on this part being SO AWESOME:
And its not Roy’s callused fingers that are on her skin, or Jim’s chapped lips on hers, and she isn’t lost in that drunken, lonely haze that she was in with that guy from Ryan’s business school. His lips are soft in the way that Jim’s couldn’t be, and his eyes are blue in the way that Roy’s just weren’t.
because, yes. It's just so true. And the hallway make-out? Oh. My. God. He couldn't wait!!! I love it! And Jim walking through them and saying "mind if I get by" like a bitter jerk. I NEED to know what Jim and Ryan's talk was about!
I can't wait for more! This is so good, and I don't miss Jim and Pam at all. I'd say I was extremely glad that you are sticking with Pam/Ryan, but that would be the understatement of the year. Please, more making out soon.
Author's Response: THANK you 69con! I'm so so glad that you are enjoying it (and that you are happy with the Ryan/Pam hotness) Oh, and you'll most definitely find out what they talked about eventually ;) You are awesome! Thank you again!!
Date: April 02, 2007 08:10 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Add me to the ranks of those hopelessly addicted to this great story - I read the whole thing over the weekend, and then this chapter the next day. Honestly, at this point I'm hoping it'll go Ryan's way (at least for a night... or two). JealousJim puts my teeth on edge.
Author's Response: Haha, remember all of my ridiculously incoherent reviews of the wonderful Vanilla?? Yeah, I think this story is my outlet for all of my Ryan/Pam wishes. Seriously, your story was so incredibly great, I'm still re-reading it :)
Date: April 02, 2007 08:09 am Title: Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy one
So, I know I said I was starting to like Ryan,but now I am totally loving the R/P. And then I saw a Jenna quote that got me thinking:
"I don’t know if Jim and Pam are ultimately meant to be together. I say this to producers all the time: ‘Sometimes that person helps you become the person that you’re supposed to be to meet the person you’re supposed to marry.’ Maybe that’s our story."
Maybe that person could be Ryan? Either way, it's awesome (and pretty hot, too).
Author's Response: I think about that quote all the time, because its so real and very probable that Jim and Pam wouldn't actually make the perfect couple that we all hope they will, and I think John's made similar statements about that too, so I'm glad that you are enjoying the R/P dynamic as much as you are :) Thank you soo much!
Date: April 02, 2007 06:25 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Great Chapter! I love how pissy Jim is being. If he can be with Karen, and all lovey-dovey with her, then Pam can do whatever she wants. And Ryan gently pushing her against that wall outside the bathroom? Niiccee...
Author's Response: Hee! Thank you so much! I love writing pissy!Jim, its just so fun.
Date: April 02, 2007 06:02 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
OMG, you are brutal, leaving us there!
This is sad: Pam ...wonders when the hell she started feeling jealous of Dwight and Angela. And this too: she wonders whether or not she can tell the difference between relief and disappointment. Sad & beautiful.
Thanks for the updates -- I'm so addicted to this fic!!
Author's Response: Thanks so much for pointing out the lines that you liked (that's always so helpful in a review!) and thanks for reading!!
Date: April 02, 2007 06:01 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
great chapter. I love Ryan/Pam but I miss Pam/Jim....even if he is still being a tool.. (I love that word)
I like the tension..ness
Author's Response: Tool is possibly one of the greatest words to use ever, hehe. Thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: April 02, 2007 05:56 am Title: I just don't want it to be weird... you know?
Oh no - please stop kissing Ryan!!!! That is going no where fun for anyone!! ;-)
But I love drunk!Dwight - the mulder/scully comparison is so dead on it's painful. Love it! And Jim's continued crankiness? Hope he's kicking himself for letting her out of that closet.
Poor Karen, little does she realise that she's not the belle of the ball on that ship....
More please!!!
Author's Response: Hee! Glad you liked drunk!Dwight, because there is definitely more of that to come! Thanks again! :)