Reminiscing About Blogging

Today was pretty fun, because I met up with my friend/acquaintance Elizabeth who interviewed me about my involvement with making ARG's (Alternate Reality Games: info here) with the Finksburg Library. The group was Hannah, Taylor, Abi, Laura, Heather, Melanie and myself for most of the ARG's.

While we were talking and she was asking me how we did certain things and what it was like to do something that big when I was only 14, I realized that while I was helping make that game I was defining myself in the future. Because without that incredible experience I don't think I would want to become a librarian.

Honest, I would not be trying to become a librarian if it wasn't for Melanie and Heather (the two librarians that kind of guided all of us through the ARG) I would not be wanting to go into this field of work.

So if you ever have me as your scatterbrained librarian (like the chick from The Mummy (who my boyfriend wishes everyone to know is named Evelyn)) blame them.

But besides that I also discovered that this entire escapade was worth it, at least to me because I discovered that there is still so much imagination that we have yet to delve into in this world. I mean, some of the answers we got on The Mystery Guest (see here) are just such a great example of that. Some of the links that we have up are expired but we had a few like ironing the character back into the book, or pushing him back in, or duct taping him back in, we even had one really great kid say "hey, why don't you use some transporting spray and make him go back?" 

It just made me feel so, happy and almost proud that something I had helped make had sparked such creativity. I mean, a library is a place that has so much freedom to create a new world for yourself, you can't just let that sit idly by! If you're reading this I beg you to please just go to a library and absorb all the classical literature that surrounds you. 

(not tweenager love stories. If you want a love novel then read Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre, read one of the classics, not the vampire book, if you want a good vampire book then read Dracula or The Night Runner or! The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, those are good vampire books)

(and by tweenager I mean the ones that make you want to destroy something as beautiful as a book and use it for kindling)

Books are doorways, they're buses, planes, trains, cars, heck, they can even be a bike, my point is, books are these incredible things that can make us forget the chaos of life for a bit. Books help us get back to ourselves. They reorganize the chaos.

And with that, I bid you all good reading.