Library Idol

I did my second Library Idol appearance at a local middle school this morning, and while it was entertaining and a good break from actually being at the library, it is not getting any less stressful or nerve-wracking. The first performance of Idol was to 380 middle schoolers, and this one was only to 150, but it was just as bad if not worse on my psyche and stomach. Luckily my alter-ego and Library Idol host is a take-charge kind of bitch, and along with the help of her Bond girl boots, black polka-dotted shirt and new white kryptonite necklace, she blew them all away. Plus the kids enjoyed winning chocolate bars for correctly answering my music trivia, and one teen was named Library Idol 2006 when I gave her an Ipod Shuffle.

Actually, I have a funny story about the Ipod Shuffles: I went to Best Buy with my two techie co-workers last week to get 10 Ipods for the ten schools I'll be visiting (our library may not be perfect, but at least we have the money thing going for us!), and one of them was not content paying $79 per Ipod and thought we should get a deal, partially because we were buying 10 and partially because they are about to come out with new ones and no one will want the old ones anymore. But all the manager would knock off was $10, so we only bought one. Well, we all went back to Best Buy yesterday afternoon, and this time I asked, and the 12 year old boy helping us went to ask his manager, and she said "I can give them to you for $30, how does that sound?". Uh, sounds ok to me. She then brought them to the girl at cash, who after taking 10 minutes to ring them all in, asked if she could get a job at the library with all of us, because we seemed like so much fun. So anyways ... the Ipod kid was certainly happy with my Idol performance, but my favourite moment was when one Grade 6 girl asked me if I owned the library. I told her that yes, I owned the library and all the other buildings in this city. No sweetie, I don't own the library - I just work here. If I owned it I might have to tear the whole thing down, put up some overpriced condos, and open a strip club, because that would be sure to make a whole lot more cashola than a library would.