OMG OMG OMG!!!!! ETHAN AND EMILY ARE BACK!!!!!! I mean, I was enjoying the silly turn of Jim’s prankster/joking creativity into the daily journal posts… but you brought back the fun of Ethan & Emily and even that Ethan is now part of the prancing fun! And, what a scene… makes me long for days when I enjoyed and had spiritual community. So sweet and kind.

Author's Response: It's the fun of creating a shared universe of stories, other characters can flit in and out of the tale like this to make it more real. Pranks are how we keep things fun in the First Responder world. If one gets pranked it's usually because that person's been accepted in the group and we know they're a quality person. Which also means ideas for other pranksters like Jim can flow easily too.

I’m still only part way through “This Thing Called Life” (I’m terrible with reading lengthy, complete fics, so it’s taking me forever & then some...) I know this is partially based on your own experiences, as well as your existing fic universe, so I may have missed something here, but I don’t picture Pam and Jim as canonically regularly church-going folks. It seemed during Cece’s baptism that they were more the special occasion church types. So, for me that felt a little out of character. But, at the same time it doesn’t detract anything from the story - I just don’t see them spending their Sundays at church.
On another note, knowing that Jim has another prank in mind for Dwight is always fun... It adds some incentive to return to work.

Author's Response: I think it's easy to come to that conclusion based on what we see in the show. There area really only a few references to Jim or Pam going to church and they're pretty brief. I think that's mainly due to the fact that it's rare for a network TV show, especially a comedy, in America to have very overt references to religion. Angela being the exception on The Office, but then again they portray her as a rather bad stereotype of Christianity for laughs. However what we do see, leads me to believe it's at least plausible. Pam says she's Presbyterian, they get married in a church, Jim's brother reads from the Bible during the ceremony and Pam remembers the quote years later in S9, Cece is christened which in my experience isn't really something parents do if they just go to church on Christmas and Easter, things like that.

Thanks as always for your comments.