bears. beets. battlestar galactica.

So guys.  

This morning I was spinning away on this beautiful tonal yellow wool, which is going to become a ruffled scarf.  I'm really pleased with how it's coming out, but as I was spinning it, I kept thinking, "What is this color combination reminding me of?"

And then it hit me.

Oh.

It's Dwight-shirt yellow.

If you've been visiting for a while, you know that I love The Office.

And now that I've seen the connection between my yarn and Dwight's color of choice, I can't un-see it.

It's also the color of Jim-as-Dwight's shirt in my absolute favorite moment in the entire series.

(it's in season 3, episode 20.  I laugh until I cry every time I watch it.  ohhhh jeez, I'm giggling just thinking about it.) 

So now this yarn is going to be my "Bears.  Beets.  Battlestar Galactica." scarf.

And I'm kind of excited about it.

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man of a thousand faces

My go-to television show to watch every semester while I am hand-stitching my hems is The Office.
In fact, I have sort of an unofficial tradition of watching every single episode by the end of the semester.
Right now I'm on season seven.  So I'm on track.
However, after eight semesters of this, I think I may have actually watched it too much.
Whenever something exasperating or bemusing happens, I find myself turning to an imaginary camera and making a Jim-face.

...Wow.  This post has gotten out of control.  I was only going to include maybe five of my favorite Jim-faces, but they are all so good.

incidentally, most of the gifs in this post are via jimhalpertfaces on tumblr.  if you do one thing today, follow them.  because there's like thirty pages of Jim-face goodness.  

THIRTY.  PAGES.

Hope you're all having a good week.  Is it seriously only Tuesday?  This week is going on forEVER.

Ha.

Alright.

I'm done now.

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favorites

What's better than one favorite thing?

Two favorite things, obviously.

Two of my favorite things came together recently!

Ok, actually they are two of my favorite people.  Not things.

There's a series on Hulu called A Day in the Life that films people for one full day, and recently they put out an episode about Marc Maron, the guy behind the WTF podcast (which I've previously mentioned here) and one of the things he does on the day of filming is to interview Mindy Kaling, one of the writers and the actress who plays Kello Kapoor on The Office.

I love the WTF podcast.

I love The Office, especially Mindy Kaling.

This is a winning combination.

You can listen to the full episode of WTF with the Mindy Kaling interview here.  It's a really good one.

note: neither the video nor the podcast are particularly child-friendly or work-appropriate.  you've been warned.

One of my favorite things about the WTF podcast is how much it makes me realize that everybody has stuff that they're going through.  Marc Maron has a refreshing willingness to be vulnerable and he also brings that out in the guests he interviews on the podcast.  I've listened to most of the available episodes and it's been inspiring to hear the personal intimate stories of so many comedians and what they've had to deal with and overcome while still managing to stay in a career where their job is to be funny.  I highly, highly recommend giving the WTF podcast a listen, and this episode would be a good first one if you already like The Office.

What podcasts do you listen to?  It's sewing season and I'd love some listening recommendations.

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