My Review of The Office Dunder Mifflin Paper (Ream)

Originally submitted at NBC Universal Store

Are you so obsessed with The Office, that you'd buy a ream of Dunder Mifflin brand copy paper? Yes, yes you are! Fans can purchase a ream (500 sheets) of Dunder Mifflin brand copy paper (bright white), which works well in copiers, inkjet or laser printers. Turn your business or home office into The...

The Office Dunder Mifflin Paper (Ream)

Can't decide whether to use, or display!

By JimImJimMyNameIsJim from Clifton, NJ on 1/13/2012

 

5out of 5

Pros: Detailed, Mint Condition, Authentic

Cons: Common

Best Uses: Adults, Memorabilia, Teens

Describe Yourself: Collector

Was this a gift?: No

Seriously I can't decide whether to use this as real printer paper or just keep the whole thing on a shelf somewhere. I wish there were an option to buy stationery with the Dunder Mifflin header on it or a wider variety of Dunder Mifflin products.

(legalese)

Poetry is NOT my Strong Suit

You know the drill. here's today's challenge, from the Writer's Digest 12 days of writing:
Day 5: Write a 20-line poem about a memorable moment in your life.


A long time ago
In a place far away
I lived with a girl named Sarah


Sarah and I had a love for trains
that sometimes, put simply
could not be contained


We decided to honor 
our train-shaped obsession
by patronizing museums, both near and far


Our fine city of Baltimore has many fascinations
but none so fine as our favorite
which of course is the museum of trains


There we saw parked trains, and moving, and broken
some that had buttons, and levers, and doors
one had a ghost, or at least so we thought
and one had crashed into a wall, long before


Many hours later, our feet were quite tired
our cameras were full and our brains had been fried
we wanted to remember every moment from train day
and on our way home, in the car, nearly cried


THAT IS MY TERRIBLE POEM ABOUT THE MOST LOVELY DAY OF MY LIFE. Don't hate.

Day Four: A Letter To Agents

It's been a rough couple of days, but I MADE A PROMISE DAMMIT. Here's the Original Post, for good measure, and here's today's prompt:
Day 4: Write a letter to an agent telling her how wonderful you are.
To Everyone In the World Who is Even Entertaining the Idea of Hiring me:
Not all of you can have me--and not all of you even want me, I can promise you that. 
I know far too much about the history of Disney, about cheeses, and about Chaucer. I get very excited about Victorian theatre, and would prefer if it rained every day. I do not enjoy reading Jane Austen, or movies where animals are in trouble. My favorite Shakespeare is Midsummer Night's Dream. 
When I write, I write what I like--and that means the subject matter can be unpredictable. Of course, that also means my writing comes from a place of passion. I write plays and essays and young adult novels. I have written my fair share of fanfiction and movie reviews, and I have worked in entertainment journalism for almost four years now.
I have written a play about being in middle school on 9/11, and another where Mario escapes from his video game world. I have written a novel about being a princess on an imaginary planet, and one about high schoolers dealing with Geeky Love. My writing has been featured on several blogs and websites, including Kotaku.com--a video game blog read by millions of fans each day. One of my favorite months of the year is November, because that is when I get to participate in the international National Novel Writing Month challenge, where participants write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. 
In short, I have a very specific way of rising to any occasion, and would be honored to work with you on continuing to diversify my portfolio!




That's it for today. Convincing someone that I am even okay when I am having the kind of week I'm having at the moment is... not easy. I welcome any and all comments. 

A Very Belated Day 3 Writing Challenge

Let's talk about the writing challenge. Day 3 is to create a setting based on the most beautiful place I've ever seen. I started this a month ago, so here is the original article.

Day 3: Write a setting based on the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen.
There was green for miles. Sometimes people say that and they don't really mean it, but seriously--there was green for miles. In fact, it was almost all there was to be seen, if it hadn't been for the enormous cathedral rising from the middle of it all. You could tell that the architect, when they were constructing the school, placed it with the cathedral in mind. There was no other way that it would be in the dead center of the dining hall window. 


Sometimes I would get up early and just sit in the empty hall, watching the sun rise from behind the cathedral. And sometimes I would stay up late to watch long after the lights came on and the moon took its place in the sky. The sunny days were stunning, but the country was really magnificent in the rain. The skies were a sentimental shade of grey, the kind they didn't have at home. From inside the dining hall, the rain sounded like it was everywhere, as though there couldn't be a single place on the planet where it wasn't raining.   


Outside of the dining hall, the air was crisp and clean all year round. The grass was impossibly green, even on the dullest of days. She could walk right into town, over cobblestone roads and through ancient walls. Everything in town had a certain gravity to it--there was a Starbucks built into the wall around the cathedral, which had been there since the 13th century. It was the only Starbucks I've ever tolerated.
It was the kind of place I could be a writer. 

This is an Apology Post

Remember that time I disappeared for a month? I really need to stop doing that. I'm back today with an apology post and a promise:
One of my new year's resolutions is to write on this blog on a regular basis. Once a week for starters.

I'm going to finish the 12 Days of Christmas challenge, starting tomorrow. And then we will go from there. In the mean time, I have been working away on ten thousand projects and I'm hoping to make serious project on Jer's Jedi costume while he watches football this afternoon.

See you tomorrow! (And this time, really, I mean it.)

Writer's Digest Writing Challenge, Day TWO

Recap for those of you who didn't read this yesterday: I'm attempting the Writer's Digest 12-Day Plan of Simple Writing.


Day 2: Create a character with personality traits of someone you love, but the physical characteristics of someone you don’t care for.


I have to admit I am not happy about this challenge. Because of that, I'm going to push myself to develop TWO characters (GASP!) one male, one female.  Also, I'm using a composite of personalities and physical traits. So don't ask me if "this is you". It might be, in part, but not in whole. Here it goes:


He has a fantastic sense of humor, but knows when to take things seriously. Never satisfied with the easiest answer to a question, he goes and finds answers on his own and expands his knowledge base at every opportunity. If you were to flip through his iPod, you would find classic rock as well as newer, alternative bands. He never tells you what you want to hear in favor of the truth. He knows answers to practical questions, and has a strange pocket of cooking knowledge. 
He's a bit on the short side, too thin for his build, and never bothers changing into real pants when he leaves the house. Sometimes when you look at him, you can't help comparing him to a "Guess Who" character, because his features look like hyperboles of eyes, nose and mouth, where all three are too small for his head. Maybe that's why he wears his sunglasses all the time, even when he's inside. 


It's very hard to take her seriously, because she's shorter than her sister who is five years younger. She's almost orange from tanning, and you can tell the ends of her hair are brittle from over processing. 
You would think, just by looking at her, that she couldn't possibly contribute to conversation in a helpful or interesting way. But every time she speaks, she surprises me with her references and comparisons and random tid-bits of information. In fact, she doesn't talk very often but when she does it's to say something that counts. 
A lot of her time is devoted to things like graphic design, writing poems, and considering what it would be like to really be on her own. Sometimes she watched movies in different languages, just because she liked the way it sounded. Whenever music was on, she danced along and made up her own lyrics if she didn't know the real ones.


I like tomorrow's challenge much better. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK IN THE COMMENTS.

Writer's Digest Writing Challenge

Writer's Digest has posted a writing challenge (at least I'm calling it a challenge) for the Holidays. You can find the complete challenge at the Writer's Digest website, it's called the 12 Day Plan of Simple Writing.

I'm starting today, because WHY NOT? 

Day 1: Write 10 potential book titles of books you’d like to write.

1. The Critical Guide To Harry Potter
• Written with Sarah Murray, at a writer's retreat, over long nights without sleep and pages and pages of notes.
2. Tales of a Teenage Twenty-Something
• This is what I want to call my memoir.
3. This One Time...at Band Camp
• Self-explanatory, and nowhere near as sexual as people expect it to be.
4. Disney for In-Betweeners
• A Travel guide for people in their twenties/early thirties.
5. The Continuing Tales of Starbuck McLaw, Told by Those Who Knew Him
• Technically, draft one has been written, but I want to COMPLETE IT.
6. Mario Beats the Game
• This will be a full-length play.
7. Because the Chicken Told Me So
• I don't know what this would be about. I don't care. I just want my name on a book with this title.
8. <3 (Or Less Than Three. Or Geek Love)
• Also a book I have the first draft for, but need to severely edit and complete.
9. Cowboys and Can-Can Girls
• Working title for a Western I've wanted to write since I was in the seventh grade
10. Caught Between a Book and A Bookcase
• I just came up with that. I don't know what it means.

Tune in tomorrow for more challenge work!