<p>So I guess I’m going to The Office Convention this coming weekend in Scranton. I’m looking forward to it. :)</p>
<p>Is anyone else going?</p>
<p>The latest episodes have been great!</p>
<p>I have only occasionally watched The Office, but y’all best believe I’m going to be watching and TiVo-ing this week’s episode for (ahem) as-yet-unspoken reasons:
Y’all might want to tune in. I’m just sayin’… (And maybe sluggbugg will pop in here to say more? 
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<p>I love the show, but I don’t particularly like the hour-long format (which is changing back to a half-hour, thankfully). They’ve had to put in a lot of filler, such as the kidnapped pizza delivery guy, to pad it out to an hour, and some of those episodes have felt very labored. But Pam and Jim remain adorable, as always.</p>
<p>It’s one of my very favorite shows. Michael Scott always makes me so very uncomfortable in a hilarious way. Please share, mootmom … it sounds like you have something you want to tell us about sluggbugg! :)</p>
<p>But without the hour-long episode, would we have been able to explore the Schrute Beet Farm not-a-B&B, complete with the Irrigation Room?</p>
<p>She told me she was going to say something herself, so I guess it’s OK that I mention…</p>
<p>As you note in the blurb above, Dwight gets himself into Second Life in this episode, and of course that would mean some actual footage would have to be shot in Second Life, which would mean there would need to be sets and avatars created, and folks acting as extras to populate the scenes… so, you may very well know (virtually) some of the folks who made this happen and/or participated in the scenes “in-world”. Ahem. Maybe. Just possibly. </p>
<p>And be sure to watch for a possible scene in a bar that just might be known as Sinner’s Alley (in our imaginations, anyway…), with a poker table near the back.</p>
<p>More after the show airs and I know whether any of the scenes I’m thinking of were included in the actual show. : )</p>
<p>The Office is by far and away my favorite show. Not going to the convention though. :(</p>
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<p>You do have a good point there. I’m giggling just thinking about it! :)</p>
<p>Ok, I’m woefully ignorant…what’s Second Life?</p>
<p>So far the attendee’s for the convention are: Stanley, David from Corporate, Kevin, Creed, Meredith, Jan, Andy, Kelly, Angela, Toby, Oscar, Darryl, Bob Vance, and Phyllis. </p>
<p>I was hoping Dwight or Jim or Pam or Michael or the Temp would be there but it looks like pretty much everybody else is making it - I’m sure those “bigger names” are doing something other than hanging out in Scranton for the weekend - ha ha.</p>
<p>Hubby and I have booked a room for the fall foliage season:D <a href=“http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g52842-d730099-Reviews-Schrute_Farms-Honesdale_Pennsylvania.html[/url]”>http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g52842-d730099-Reviews-Schrute_Farms-Honesdale_Pennsylvania.html</a></p>
<p>Love The Office. Did you know Steve Carell is a Denison alumnu???</p>
<p>I don’t like the Jim and Pam relationship. I liked the sexual tension before.</p>
<p>I think Kelly and Darryl are amusing.</p>
<p>Make that alumnus. ;)</p>
<p>I actually laughed out loud when the door opened and the camera panned the irrigation room. Someone had a great deal of fun with the “Beet Farm not a B+B”.</p>
<p>so, the office convention was really awesome. we went to the cast q & a and everyone was very down to earth and their responses to things were great. we got to hear andy sing all of the songs he sings on tv - haha. got to see daryl repeatedly kiss kelly, found out that angela thinks she would be best off with dwight, got to see how weird creed really is, etc.</p>
<p>at the concert at night we got to see stanley dance, meradith sing and play the keyboards, creed play the guitar and sing, daryl sing, Jan sing (did anyone else know she’s a singer - she was selling her album there), and kevin closed the show by singing a police song. </p>
<p>It was great!! You can youtube ‘the office convention’ to see some neat videos from it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update! I wish I were there :(</p>
<p>I wanted to post this link… it’s a recap of the office cast members performing during the concert…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwpF3jCQus[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwpF3jCQus</a></p>
<p>Here’s creed’s first question</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqbb497swMo[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqbb497swMo</a></p>
<p>and here’s there theme song</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6usbyL-qoU[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6usbyL-qoU</a></p>
<p>U-ti-ca. U-ti-ca. :D</p>
<p>Still giggling over “The Finer Things Club”.</p>
<p>I’m so glad Stanley is staying in Scranton. 
(And we got to see him smile!)</p>
<p>Finer Things Club = hilarious.</p>