Paper Clips and Yoghurt Lids - The Official Diary of Pam Beesly

December 13, 2003

1:36am

I'm defying Roy's orders and staying awake, using my flashlight to see you, diary. I know my body will hate me for it tomorrow, but I am gonna be hungover anyway. I slept for a solid three hours...and all my dreams (or rather, nightmares) were about this documentary. I just CAN'T get it out of my head. I'm SO envying Roy right now. He can snooze so loudly like this is the best sleep he's had in years. Even after hearing such news like this?!

AN ADAPTATION OF THE OFFICE?????? BY OUR BRANCH????? THE GROUNDBREAKING BRITISH DOCUMENTARY SERIES WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY BOSS DAVID BRENT? I AM GETTING CHILLS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT!

When Michael told us, we were speechless and frozen for what felt like an hour of trying to comprehend what he had just said. NOBODY could move. You could honestly FEEL the excitement and Christmas cheer being sucked out of the room, diary. It was if someone had died :( 

Only when Creed excused himself to go to the bathroom (the GIRLS bathroom) and Kevin bit into a gingerbread cookie really loudly (he never closes his mouth), that we all immediately began yelling our rage and disbelief that this could be happening, and our disgust that our "remake" would be as good as the original. IT WOULDN'T! 

 All the uniqueness and creativity would be lost and replaced with DISASTER if WE were the ones to implement a US version. We've all watched The Office, and it is a true work of ART!

I've lost count of how many times we've rewatched tapes of The Office over and over. Probably 500 times since it first aired two years ago.

Sometimes, whilst pretending to work, Michael would let us all gather around the TV in the conference room and watch episodes of the show for hours, with loads of popcorn, chips and comfy bean bags. We loved to mock their British accents, and their uncanny resemblance to us (working at paper companies - merely a coincidence!) We called each other by their names.

-My opposite (or I like to say, alter ego), is Dawn Tinsley. Not just for both being a receptionist, we both like art and illustrations, and have a fiancee :) She likes Tim and they...oh, never mind. But if we ever crossed paths in real life, I reckon that we would be really good friends. I think, we'd get each other. We could both sort out each other's life dilemmas...if only :/

-Michael is MOST DEFINITELY David Brent. No doubt about it. He loves it when we remind him that they are really alike! And so Michael LOVES him and cracks up on every little joke, gaffe, one liner that comes out of David Brent's mouth. His catchphrase is now "That's what she said" after Brent's infamous "As the actress said to the bishop". So now we say it along with him, ALL THE TIME. I can't imagine what would happen if they met each other for the first time, they would bond like PUPPIES who refuse to be toilet trained.