Dark Dark Box

This week I had a Halloween storytime to celebrate the season and my second favorite holiday. Attending were an assortment of costumed kiddies from fairies to pumpkins to Captain America.

During the storytime I told the story "In a Dark, Dark Room" The story goes "In a dark, dark woods there was a dark dark house where there was a dark dark shelf" well you get the picture. At the end there is a "dark, dark box" where in the book a ghost pops out. I didn't have a ghost but I had a box and I found a stuffed witch in the closet. However, the box was full of dozens of frisbees and I did not want to dump them all out so I just stuffed the witch on top of the frisbees and closed the box. At the point of the story where I said "and in the dark dark box was a..." I pulled out the witch and all the kids clapped their hands in delight. But they all wanted to see what else was in the box. I thought kids pulling frisbees ouf of the "dark dark" scary box would kind of ruin the mood and they probably would start throwing them so I whisked the box away. Of course a toddler was pawing through the box and as soon as I pulled it away she let out a screech...kind of like a witch. The scary mood was over.

Cosplay!

At my anime club the other week we had a cosplay. I was hoping more would come and dress up but as I've learned working with teens, they have very short memories and if you tell them something at a meeting two weeks before they are most likely to forget it. However, some remembered and we had fun playing anime charades. They were screaming and laughing so hard (teen girls have this scream that is a particular pitch that can't be duplicated by anyone else) that by the end of it my ears hurt.

I even dressed up for the cosplay the other week. I wore cat ears, a black shirt, black leather skirt, fishnets and black leather boots. I found the fisnet stockings extremely uncomfortable. My feet were in pain in those boots by the end of the afternoon. My coworker told me you're supposed to wear little socks with the fishnets so they don't hurt your toes so much. It's amazing the things you learn at the library!