Current location:	llandudno junction? wait, no.
Current mood:	tired
Current music:	Radiohead - Reckoner
Entry tags:	radiohead, the office

it ripples our reflections
So I was in Wales this weekend, and when I say Wales I don't mean rift-in-timey-Cardiff, I mean northern Cymru in the heart of Snowdonia where basically everyone speaks Cymraeg and there are signs entirely in said language. It was awesome. It was basically a weekend of divine providence, with perfect weather, otherworldly mountains & valleys, and lots of nature -- and once back in London we even caught the last Northern line and Central line train back to our flat.

However this means that I only learned this morning that we lost the rugby (aww) and that Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is gay. That's what happens when you're in, like, Narnia for a weekend.

And I've just watched last week's The Office. I have to say, while like everyone I've been kinda iffy on the hour-length episode, this one was absolutely amazing and probably one of my favourite episodes ever. Paul Lieberstein for the fucking win. I don't know, previously my favourites have been the crazily outrageous ones that toe the line very deftly, the ones that turn a lot of people off -- like, say, Gay Witch Hunt. But this one toed a different line, and again did it very deftly. I never in a million years could have thought I would have felt so badly for Dwight. That scene with Jim and him in the stairwell was just perfectly done. And the things Jim told him, man, that was a personal scene. And it made me really remember how angsty Jim and Pam were in the past (for the first time in months), and all of the stupidness they've gone through. So it was perfect when Jim just immediately strode back into the office and kissed her.

Not only with those couples though, but with Darryl's dealings with Kelly, and Jan and Michael, everything was really emotionally honest and resonating. (And oh hah, Jan & Michael's final conversation about her implants. Oh my god.) The first part of the episode that really stood out to me in its skill was how they presented Michael's position in his other job, with people actually LIKING him. I felt like he was a bit of Ryan and a bit of Jim, and it managed to perfectly fit in with everything we know about Michael to begin with.

Also I have to point out the whole Schrute Farm experience, which, omg. Seriously.

ETA: AND! Harry Potter bedtime story!

EATA: FINALLY! The whoever/whomever debate was one of my favourite conversations to ever grace my teevee er, lappy screen. NO LIE. PAUL LIEBERSTEIN, SERIOUSLY!

As a side note, I can officially say that not only is Reckoner my favourite song on the album, it is truly meant to be the centrepiece because if you listen closely to the interlude midway, you can hear Thom slowly singing: in raaaaain, in raaaaain, in raaaaaainbows, in raaaainbows.

(However it MUST be known, as I don't think this is general knowledge: the intro of Nude is the end of Nude, looped backwards. AND that song is perfection, just as I always knew it would be.)