Ephebiphobia

Ephebiphobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of teenagers ... but what happens if a teen services librarian has this fear?

I'm not afraid of them at this very moment, probably because there aren't any in the teen area, but I have had a very productive morning looking at all sorts of job postings that I can't really apply for because A) I don't have the experience and B) I sort of have a job right now. At the very least it seems I need two years experience to get anything else decent (and even that may be in another crappy mid-sized Canadian city), which means I have to be here for another 7 months, but many of the better jobs require a minimum of 5 years experience. I could get a "trainee librarian" position at a university in London and get that valuable university experience, but I would be paid next to nothing while I was there and given the cost of living in London, that is not an option.

So I suppose I should focus on the task at hand, which is getting through the next few months, and one way I can do that is by planning crazy programs like one I just saw described in VOYA - Gocks! Goth Sock Puppets for Teens. It sounds like an awesome, and relatively cheap, program to do, and we could make goths, emos, punks, etc. I knew there was a reason I bought all those safety pins for my Halloween costume!