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girl in a cardigan · 05-10-2008, 07:13 AM

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I can see that and I'm totally fine with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. I guess it just bugs me that we've heard Jim say time and time again that he doesn't care about DM and what a boring job it is, etc. which would lead me to believe he has thoughts about other things. But, then again maybe not. Who doesn't complain about their job?

I think maybe some of those comments in the past may have had something to do with the whole compounding factor. When the girl you are in love with isn't with you and you still live with a roommate and your boss is Michael, I think you may be down about selling paper than on other days. And maybe what we've seen (and kinda missed because of the strike) is that Jim's growing up some. The things you bitch about when you are 24/25 are not the things you bitch about when you are 28. And if he's happy in his personal life, maybe selling paper all day, sitting across from his girlfriend is quite as soul-sucking as it had been in the past.

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And like I said I love that Jim is thinking of Pam and their future, etc. And again there's nothing wrong with Pam being his sole motivation for deciding to actually try at work now, etc. It just worries me a bit for a few reasons. Just like Jim would support Pam, I'm sure Pam would support Jim. It reminded me of the Philly Jim thing...........Pam really wanted to know about this second life and guitar playing, sports writing Jim, but Jim was quick to brush it off and didn't open up. I know it was just a game but it seems like there was more there with things that he had obviously thought about doing.

Well, I want to think that once they got home that night, Pam pressed him a little bit more about "Philly!Jim." But I can kinda see Jim's POV on that one too. If I was making up a fantasy character of myself, I'd probably not make myself an assistant at a medical school in Jersey like I currently am (I'd be a writer in Cali who sings in a jazz club at night - and I'm making one of those things come true this summer). That's not to say that I'm upset with what I do (well, I hate the Jersey part, but again, changing that soon), just that in a fantasy world I'd choose something else. Jim's Second Life av is attainable, so perhaps that's what he really dreams of.

But the more I watch, the more I think Jim is just one of those traditionalist guys who wants to support his partner and be the breadwinner. Pam would have to do a lot of convincing to get him out of his bubble and try something. Since Pam needs her own convincing to try new things, I'm not sure I see that happening. But I don't see Jim regretting not trying to be a sports writer because I think he'd really be happy either way.

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I've always thought that Jim would at some point come to terms and make the choice that DM was a career for him. I'm at peace with that if Jim is.

Yeah, who knows what we're in for in the finale. I'm nervous. I keep going back in forth in my mind about Jim and about Pam and about the two of them.

I'd really like to actually hear him say that - though maybe that's what he was saying with his "try" TH this week. I hate having to infer what's going on inside both him and Pam's mind and the conversations I hope they are having.

And yeah, the finale is such a wild card right now. I don't know that I've ever had such trepidation going into a finale and not really knowing what to expect. I know that the writers love these characters (and so do the actors who play them), so I can't imagine them going the way of Meredith and Derek (on "Grey's Anatomy") in the finale, but I'm just really anxious about what lays in store for them.