hellloooo! happy september :)
guest reviews (i hardly keep up on these sorry!)
GUEST: (on chapter 12) thank you! that seriously means a lot!
GUEST: (on chapter 12) you're welcome! thank YOU so much for reading!
SOPHIE: (on chapter 11) i'm glad to hear you like this! and thanks :)
RACHELLE: (on chapter 11) thanks! jim's the best, amiright?
title taken from: "Brave" by Sara Bareilles :D
PamBees is currently listening to: Heaven (TheWalkmen)
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jimhalp is online
jimhalp is typing…
jimhalp: i can see you stealing my music taste
jimhalp: the walkmen, really?
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beesly15 is online
beesly15 is typing…
beesly15: ? how can you see that?
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jimhalp: i follow you on spotify
jimhalp: songs you listen to show up in my feed
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beesly15: ?
beesly15: what's your username?
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jimhalp: halpert95 :)
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beesly15: oh i see
beesly15: followed. now i can stalk what you're listening to ;)
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jimhalp: :)
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beesly15 is typing…
beesly15: coldplay, jim? are you serious?
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jimhalp: what's wrong with a bit of coldplay in the evening?
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beesly15: im not saying theres anything *wrong* with them
beesly15: all im saying is that your hipster levels just went through the roof
beesly15: ;)
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jimhalp: im not a hipster!
jimhalp: you're more hipster than me. i see you listening to ingrid michaelson.
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beesly15: …
beesly15: fine. i see your point. truce?
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jimhalp is typing…
jimhalp is typing…
jimhalp is typing…
jimhalp: …fine.
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beesly15: :D
"I've been listening to your playlists." Pam slipped into the chair beside him, dumping her bag on the desk instead of preparing for the class, and instead talking to him.
"Hello there, Pam. How was your day?"
"Funny." She deadpanned. "But really. I've been listening to them, almost all of them, actually." She could never keep a serious face for very long.
"Okay…" He replied slowly, not sure of what exactly she was getting at.
"And like, I hate to admit it, but they're actually pretty good."
"Wow, really? Are you actually paying me a compliment? For once?"
"Yes."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." She shot him one of her classic thousand-watt-smiles before tending to her bag, setting out everything she would need for the lesson in front of her.
Halpert95 is currently listening to: Flying Horses (Dispatch)
[playlist: Roommate's Gone]
PamBees is currently listening to: Sing (Travis)
[playlist: Songs I Stole From Jim]
text message
sent 19:47
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
"songs i stole from jim?"
read 19:51
sent 19:51
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
it's an accurate title. unlike SOME people, i don't go all out trying to name all my playlists something hipster and dramatic.
read 19:52
sent 19:54
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
i don't know what you're talking about. i am the MASTER of mixtape titling.
read 19:54
sent 19:55
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
"mixtape"? is this 2004?
read 19:55
sent 19:58
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
no. but didn't you make mixtape cds in high school? or middle school at least?
read 19:58
sent 19:59
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
like once. for roy, but im not sure if he listened to it or not. it was kinda dumb anyway.
read 20:03
sent 20:04
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
mixtapes aren't dumb. they're suuuper cool. me and my friends made tons of them in high school. like for presents and stuff?
read 20:05
sent 20:06
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
isn't that a bit cliched? like, john hughes?
read 20:06
sent: 20:08
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
a) theres nothing wrong with good old john hughes b) they're so not cliched! and c) you've obviously never received a mixtape, Beesly.
read 20:09
sent 20:10
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
of course i haven't. most people haven't! this isn't the 90s!
read 20:12
sent 20:13
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
ok, we have to rectify this.
read 20:15
sent 20:15
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Pam
are you suggesting making a mixtape? for real?
read 20:16
sent 20:17
TO: Beesly
FROM: Jim
absolutely i am.
however, i will of course be expecting one back, beesly. ;)
read 20:18
sent 20:22
TO: Jim Halpert
FROM: Beesly
alright then. im gonna mixtape your ass off. be ready, halpert. .
read 20:23
Jim Halpert had a total of 131 songs in his online library, and another 20 or so CDs in his room.
He had always been a fan of music - sometimes, he felt that the world was too quiet or even boring, and music was a way to relieve that. It decorated time, just as his posters decorated his walls.
For Pam's sake and for his, he tried not to make the tape too personal. He knew if he did, he'd probably end up revealing things he wasn't ready to reveal to her, not yet, and so he tried to choose songs that had little personal underlayers.
He grabbed a notebook from his desk drawer (still unwritten in, despite having been at college for over a month now) and wrote in block capitals at the top: "PAM'S TAPE"
The first item: "Heaven". He remembered how she mentioned liking it when she first heard it, and he knew she had been listening to it herself recently. Plus, he felt it had a good start to it.
Finding a second song was slightly harder. He scrolled through his library twice before mentally going through the list of CDs he had in his room.
Suddenly, it came to him, and so he scribbled it down frantically before he could forget.
The other songs came pretty easy after that.
(Though maybe he broke his own rule, just a little bit.)
PamBees is currently listening to: Eet (Regina Spketor)
Halpert95 is currently listening to: Breezeblocks (alt-j)
Halpert95 is currently listening to: Eet (Regina Spektor)
Pam had already drafted her tape for Jim twice, but had given up both times.
Jim's taste is music was so… Offbeat. He seemed to like songs that had more depth to them, whereas Pam, herself, just liked anything that sounded nice.
For the third time creating and writing out the list of songs, she had decided to just give up on the aesthetic quality of the thing and just focus on putting in songs that she liked, and would like her friend to listen to.
"SONGS FOR JIM" was written at the top of the Word document. The word count only listed as 24 so far, and the cursor kept on blinking at her.
The first was a rather obvious choice for her. "The Calculation." It was one of the songs she had discovered near the end of middle school, right before the summer. She didn't understand it then, but she felt that she finally could, now, and the song was important to her.
Another she was definitely putting in, (though she wasn't sure exactly where) was an old nostalgic-tinted one from her childhood. "Send Me On My Way" was one of the only songs she remembered having on CD when she was elementary-school-age, and even to this day, she still couldn't make out the lyrics. Something about that certain song just felt special. And it reminded her of Jim, a little, in some strange, roundabout way.
The others took a little less thinking, but she spent a lot more of her time arranging them properly, wanting them to flow nicely into each other to impress Jim. He was a self-identifying mixtape pro, after all.
sent 18:41
TO: jhalpert/ gmail . com
FROM: pambeesly004/ gmail . com
SUBJECT: ...?
I'm all done with your songs, btw :) Just need to borrow Kelly's laptop to burn them... But I should be able to get it to you in a few days.
Hope you're almost done, I can't wait to see what you have in store for me this time ;)
sent 19:23
TO: pambeesly004/ gmail . com
FROM: jhalpert/ gmail . com
SUBJECT: ? already?
I'm... Nearly there. I think I'll be finished soon, but it just doesn't feel complete yet, y'know?
But once I'm done I'll be sure to get it to you, don't worry!
And I'm certainly looking forward to yours, too, Beesly. :)
thanks for reading!