quick update
It's been a few days since I last posted. But I have an excuse: We've been holding an "Office: Season Three" marathon of sorts at my house. Also, I've been working overtime at the paper, keeping the Web site updated and designing our special three-day breast cancer series in addition to other sundry tasks.
So, essentially, I've been working all day, then rushing home to make dinner and throw on a little "Office" before I collapse into sleep.
Maybe more than a few, actually -- we've already gotten through all the special features (except the commentaries, which we're saving for last) and moved on to the episodes. And we're already on the third disc of four.
I have to say this: I think I was a little thrown when the installments were first aired by the way the show branched out at the beginning of the third season. I remember being a little bit unsure whether they would hold up to be as classic as the first two seasons' episodes.
But you know what? There's no question anymore. They absolutely do.
I said in my last entry that I'd let you know what special treats were included in the Target version of the Season Three set. Well, when we got to the Berkshire Mall, we parked outside Best Buy -- we figured we could check out the extras with their deluxe set, then compare them to the extras over in Target.
And Best Buy almost had us. Their special "Gift Set" included a Dundie award and a mini Dwight bobblehead. We lingered and hemmed and even hawed, but then we went to Target, just to see what their Deluxe set contained.
And we ended up going with Target's "Nifty Gifty" set. It didn't have the toys, but it did have an exclusive fifth disc containing a 23-minute Q&A with the cast. It was cheaper, too, not that that would have been the deciding criterion. No, it's the extra screen time that will always win me over, no matter how much I wanted a Dundie and a bobblehead for my desk.
"So yeah," as Pam (Jenna Fischer) said in Season Two's "Yankee Swap" Christmas episode, when she traded the video iPod she had won to get back the teapot Jim had originally gotten her, "I think I made the right choice."
On a side note, I logged in to MySpace today to read a message from Fischer: She and her husband, James Gunn, are splitting. Best of luck to both of them.