The Binge… Isolation Viewing

Too subtle? I’m playing on “The Purge” a movie about everyone legally committing crimes for 24 hours once a year, even murder. Instead of that heinousness, in this the hours, days, weeks, and months of our current apocalypse, I am bingeing videos, shows, & movies. I comfort-watch a bunch of shows like Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, Community, The Tick, Sherlock, etc. Now I’m all caught up with The Rookie, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal, etc. I could still track down and catch up on the Doctor Who I’ve missed, plus a few others. I’m hunting for a new show to become a comfort show after viewing the entirety. These are mostly lighter shows, comedies usually, stuff I can fall asleep to and know that nothing super dark will happen to give me nightmares.

I binge police procedurals, The walking Dead, Dexter, and other heavier shows too, but not these days. If I’d noticed it earlier I probably would have been into Pandemic or Outbreak but, as fictional as I am sure they are, they are too real right now. I heard about another one that was medical-based too and the second season deals with… the black plague? It must involve time travel? Stress is destroying my memory.

Stats for Quarantine so far:

Most Watched: Community (Hulu)
Commentary: A Late Show & Last Week Tonight (Youtube)
Weirdest Movie so far: Under the Skin (Netflix)
Tried it, didn’t stick: Dr. Ken (Amazon Prime)
Funny so far: Schitts Creek (Netflixs)
Want more episodes: The Rookie, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order SVU, The Orville, Good Omens, (that one is not going to happen but What a Gorgeous Show) Firefly. (no, I will never stop wishing this.)
The World as I wish it: Liziqi (Youtube)

Other than watching shows I did pick up my knitting last night. I’m sorry, I should have made sure you were sitting down before typing that. I hadn’t knit a stitch since we locked ourselves down. I knit several rows on what will probably be the last Harry Potter Washcloth I knit for awhile. A small part of the reason I stopped knitting was that I was bored of the washcloths. I’m knitting my way through Harry Potter Knitting Magic; by Tanis Gray but seven washcloths is a lot. I’ll finish them up at a later date but I’m ready to move on. Think my next project might be the Beauxbatons Capelet or one of the House Mug Cozies. I’ll have to see what I have the materials and needles for. A very cool book if anyone likes to knit. It was a post-Xmas gift from my husband because it didn’t come out til January… I think. While I knit I am, of course, watching shows or videos, mostly Liziqi or tiny house tour videos.

What are YOU doing during isolation? Please let me know! I’d love to hear from you, other humans, people… is anyone out there still? ~_^

Successful Programs & Future Plans

The Teen Advisory Board is growing. When I started last December there were 4 or 5 members it has grown to 9. They are talking about programs they’d like to run; a Ukulele club, an LGBT support group, etc. It’s very exciting to see them realizing that they have the power to steer Y.A. programming at the library.

I just had 12 kids show up for an Interactive Graphic Novel workshop this past weekend. Not the most I’ve ever had show up to something but a very encouraging number for our small, rural library. I think we had 9 show up for the Sumobots workshop last month which is a good number as well. My Bullet Journal workshop only had 2 teens but they were enthusiastic.

Next month I am having a Breakfast Cereal & Cartoons Saturday Morning slothfest, and December will have a Harry Potter theme featuring an ornament making workshop and a showing of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” with butterbeer, puzzles and prizes. In January 2020 I will be starting a year of monthly fairy tale movies in keeping with next summer’s theme and I will be starting “Book Boot Camp” a book club of monthly shifting genre’ to get readers out of their comfort zones. Laser Tag at the Library is also on the table but we need to check the equipment first to make sure it still works. I am feverishly working on all things fairy tale for next summer and hope to offer some amazing workshops for the local teens & tweens.

I’ve never had a job like this before. It’s so interesting and exciting planning and bringing off programming for this age group. (11-18) I feel so lucky to have this job, to have a supportive and wonderful boss and coworkers who are helpful and encouraging. It is impossible for me to leave work at work, I find myself thinking up ideas for programs and “quickly looking up one thing” for work that turns into me designing posters and brochures for a couple of hours. When I can finally use my studio I’m definitely going to have a space for working on programs and planning events for the library.

Slacker

OK, it’s official, I’ve been slacking off on this little blog. I got sick and busy and lost in my own head, a problem I suffer from from time to time. I’m quite prone to getting lost in my own labyrinth of a mind.

Let’s see… I’m ok with the new hair, it’s meh but it is pretty much for a Halloween costume so … whatever, it’s fine. I’m going to re-dye it soon, go lighter. got most of my costume worked out and now need some parties to go to. I have a couple of friends throwing parties so it shouldn’t be a problem. I’m no longer sick, just still tired and dragging, so improvement!

I’m a teen librarian, as you probably already know, and I run a Teen Advisory Board Group every month. This past Monday I had 9 kids show up! I usually get 3-4 so this is a big deal to me. My programs haven’t been super well attended but I think I am having some small impact. The kids love my ideas but showing up is a whole other thing, it’s tough I know, they have to have the motivation/energy and most of them need their parents to drive them, another hurdle, so I get it. (NINE!!! ^_^) They are very excited for the Harry Potter movie showing I have planned for December with Butterbeer and word puzzles which can be completed for a chance to win hand made house scarves …which I REALLY need to get working on. I have kids interested in staring an LGBT club, kids who want to get together for arts and crafts, kids who want a book club and …wow, that’s already a LOT of stuff for me to manage on top of all the other things we’ve got going. (TAB, Pathfinder and 1-2 random programs per month)

It’s kind of amazing having a job I care about and where I am making some kind of difference. I love it.