I was already dorkily proud of this story I wrote for work, suggesting ways to shake up the Jim and Pam storyline on The Office. It was tough calibrating the tone so that it was still clear that I love the show and I don’t actually think I know better than the writers — so it was really gratifying when my friend Joya Balfour, a classmate from Grade 8 and 9 who’s now the Emmy-nominated producer of the show’s official website, tweeted that she loved it and was passing it on to the writers of the show. Glory! So I’ll be spending the weekend waiting for my offer to join the show’s writing staff.
I also created a charticle about TV’s inappropriate single mothers, which came out great except that I’m still kicking myself about the ones I forgot: Nancy and Celia from Weeds, and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous. Think of the omissions as, like, when the guys who weave Persian rugs intentionally leave in one error because no one’s perfect but God. (It wasn’t intentional, but let’s pretend.)
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Those are amazingly excellent suggestions! I think you do need to be added to the show’s staff! I’d like to suggest Ryan as Pam’s arch-rival. When Pam and Ryan were at Michael Scott Paper Company, he was great as Pam’s nemesis, and really made her fun! He’s already a joke, but he’s jsut smart enough that needling him would be fun, in a way that needling Kelly wouldn’t. Plus, using Kelly to get at Ryan sounds right up Pam’s alley…