I'm singing U2 now, so. :P

I don't know what we did to deserve this but so many fluff pieces on the same day? One from you, especially! - that's pretty amazing, since your fics come up once in a while...

Loved this. The description of the workday was amazing, because I can feel what hell it can be, and while I'm slightly sad that Jim would still be there in two years [in your imagination], I'm also - not sad. I'm not making sense. And the description of his home is even better - Feed me, woman, and I'll listen to anything you have to say. I can imagine him saying that and it makes me goofy-grin. 

Thank you so much for posting this, NEJ! 

It's very late here but for now, let me leave it at this: love it. such a dork is my single validation for being called a dork [fyi, Jim loves dorks!], and I love that you managed to get that out of Pam, too. That's why that last bit? Very nearly broke my heart. They need to stop being idiots, pronto. 

OK, I love the imagery you've got here, too, from sitting in his car to holding his hand at the rink to watching someone else on the rink trying to let go. 

OK, I should shut up.  

I absolutely loved this - it's amazing how beautiful you can make everything sound - It’s just another earthquake that ends in cracked pavement and shattered glass. is gorgeous - and I loved how you managed to make us feel for Karen, but still we knew this was the best thing to happen - and when you describe [I think it was the fourth-last paragraph] what she thinks of this love, that love rather, that epic love, it's just - brilliant. All sorts of it.

And Jim's I love you broke both my heart as well as Karen's, so. 

I have to admit I clicked on this link with some trepidation because you have written satisfed-Jim/Karen before, but I loved this as much as I loved those. 

And I'm going to read it again. So good, unfold! 

Strange how as the pieces scatter they come back together again.

Brilliant, absolutely - I loved Pieces, and the way you brought that into this universe, well - there's even more of a reason for Roy to have completely lost it that night Poor Richard's. Not that I'm saying they're good reasons, but still. 

Also, Jim yelling? And Roy thinking it's all freaking revenge? Brilliant. 

And this He's wondering if he'll ever stop seeing his life play out on shrubbery - all sorts of genius. And the Angela and the Pam and the Karen and how in the end you know it's Pam, but something about it - it's so good I can't help thinking it could be Karen, too. Maybe. 

Crap, I have to read this again now. Love this to bits. Seriously.

John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer would re-enact the confession and kiss in my living room every honking day, while I would clap my hands and squee like a jackass.  :o)

This is in no way part of the story but you do realise that if you owned these characters we'd all probably make you record them re-enacting all that every honking day so that we could all scream like jackasses?
Just making sure. 

Anyway, I loved this - Pam's confession was so Pam - as much as I would love her saying it aloud, I'm in love with you, this - this is courageous, honest, and completely Pam. Not all the way there, but getting close. [I'm getting a TWSS from this one, too; what a gutterhead I'm becoming!] 

And I loved that last e-mail, because that's Jim - not saying it out loud, because Karen is still there, after all, but still telling her, because Pam should know.

And finally: I love the stark contrast between Karen and Jim/Pam, seen most obviously in their reactions for Peggy Philpot-Phillips. 

Lovely, as always, maybe a little better because your promises were founded this time and you didn't leave us hanging!  

Loved it. Definitely worth finishing. Stick to it, or I'll come after you.

I'm fully serious. I take fanfiction very seriously.

I'd also say more but I've a project due tomorrow. But please, please, please get that new chapter written, done, and up! 

I'm liking where you're going with this!!! It seems sometimes like the two things they have in common are Dunder Mifflin and a great sense of humour - and it's always troubled me that these two, who've said they're the best of friends, probably never did anything after work together at all. And how can they be best friends that way?

So I love the idea. I can't wait to see where you're going with this! 

And that's why I shall not, shall not, be moving from this seat here until you get a new chapter up. Unless I need to pee or get something to eat. ...or be productive. oO Okay. 

EROUST! Oh my goodness, CreedandKevinandToby and Dwangela [and DWIGHT BEHIND AHEAD!] and - wow, wow, wow, everything, from the assorted bits of the e-mail-receiving and the KellyRyan and - I really adored the Dwight/Angela, and - I loved everything else, too. I can't make up my mind, but I know I'm going to love this. 

I am going to love this. 

Crap, do you know how beautiful this is? absolutely gorgeous, flowing, stopping but not really stopping, and the descriptions, and the movements, and lines, and the words, and the way everything just works. I love this. I adore this.

And the emotions of this - just wonderful, palpable, so there. I love how everything meshes together [I've already said that but I do] and you can see the emotions are meshed together, too - there's never a moment when she's feeling just one thing, and...wow.

I loved how well you've written Pam, as well - something about the almost poetic way you've written this makes it seem as if it's hers, in her colours and strokes and lines. 

And I adored so many lines about this it's insane - the way you say she never really thought about him, except - all the time. And I love how some questions end in fullstops, how some things she says [and doesn't] he can read so well - of course he can. He doesn't misinterpret. 

And the imagery! So beautiful it's brilliant. I loved the final part, the idea of them standing together, there, against the vending machine, him laughing into her skin because he hit a button, how she goes it's just what I wanted and he goes I know and you get the strangest feeling they're not just talking about the bar - and I love that you didn't mention that, so we see that ourselves. 

I'd give you some strange 'you are my idol!' star-sticker but I'd feel like a doofus. 

Absolutely lovely, though. I love this so much it's insane. Gorgeous. I don't know how to stop.

Heck, I'm probably going to end up sending you a 'you are my idol!' star-shaped-sticker, anyway.  

If you choose to end it here, so help me, I will hunt you down and kick you. I have your [e-mail] address, and spamming skillz, and I'm not afraid to use it. 

I am fully serious.

This is heart-breaking, sad, so real, and just - so final, but yet I am convinced that it's not. Not the end, not final. Please prove me right.

I loved the descriptions, and wow, the emotion in this hits me in all directions - I love the idea of Jim collapsing and crying, because dammit, he's going to have to learn to live with a lot of things. I love the idea of Jim hating the man who doesn't even exist yet. I love the idea of a final hug to have a final memory.

Even though even saying all of this has got me damn near tears.

I love this too much to say properly. So please, please, please give us something to look up to - this is angstier than the angst we get on the show, and that is saying a hell of a lot.

Eagerly waiting. Standing right here. Not moving.  

Oof, here's a tip, Geinnob: never preface a fic with mentions of booze and General Hospital. Seriously. The only reason I read more was because I worship your stories. 

As always, same reaction for this one.

First of all: loved the brief descriptions of both Kelly and Karen here - Karen's [sad] timing, coming in sleek, and Kelly adding as many 'o's to 'so', abusing exclamation marks, etc., is just so very her that even without the name upfront I would know exactly who it was, how she'd be saying it. 

And PAM! I love 'she sits and waits (which is what she does for him now)', because that's [sadly] true, I love how she knows what he's thinking about, going to say, and how he doesn't have to say anything directly before she goes 'give me a reason'. And I love her reasons, her solutions for getting a reason, I loved that bit about her plans tonight, and I loved the how please, just don't go is so incredibly potent, real, powerful - brilliant. So much silence, too, still, but they're getting closer. 

And at first I was feeling mildly irritated with Jim, for asking something of her this way, even though he can't, he won't do anything about it yet, but then I figured this is just a step closer [or miles closer, maybe, comparing this to the 'steps' we see on the show] from what they were before - there's some sort of hope, in there, and you got that across so well in the last sentence: ...it's a lot, actually.

Gorgeous, as always. If General Hospital was even a quarter-written this way, I may be able to survive ten minutes of it. I may need that alcohol, though, of course. ;)

Oh, crap, I was going to have a nice long review, but right now I have to economical with my words - I can't think of anything else to say - and you'll have to stick with these things

1) Jim is being an asshole
2) Your Michael is SPOTON. as is Dwight!
3) I am liking Ryan and that is - strange, because I was very mad at him for a while, and believe it or not it was Business School that made me like him even less, but I'm liking him - I like that you've made his jokes/cracks the kind of thing he would say, considering his darker, more cynical take on things. Nice.
4) However, if they go beyond this you look really amazing tonight, I am going to whine, and fall on the floor, and roll, and roll, and cry.
5) and your comment in the last chapter is the only thing that's kept me hanging on your every other word
6) other than your amazing story, of course :P [because I know I'll be reading this however that goes]
7) and also your amazing depiction of Drunk!Pam, because I'm straight, but when I read or watch drunk!Pam I feel woozy and feel like hugging her to death.

Yes. So. Hurry up and update.  

This is going to be completely insuffient but GUH, the cliffhangers!! Long chapters, yes, but CLIFFHANGERS. And I still have no idea where you're going with Ryan/Pam. I like Kelly, too, OK? Not as much as Jim/Pam, but I like Kelly, and Ryan/Pam will kill off both Kelly and Jim/Pam and that is...not very nice. 

I can't believe how much you've made me like Ryan/Pam, though - I won't kill you, maybe just be a bit mad. Pretty mad. Do not see that as encouragement.

It's surprising how in-character you seem to have kept Ryan - I love that. He's different but you can still put those feelings and gestures and expressions and voice and statements to the same person/character/face, and that takes a lot of talent, I believe. ;) 

Great job, as always. Update quick before I find the need to run after you. I have your [e-mail] address!!!