Okay, I confess my addiction to pop culture, particularly the TV show Monk.
I can't help it and I can't talk about it with anyone other than OCD people.
Knowing the stereotypes that librarians have about being OCD, I thought there
might be some others out there in the same boat. I particularly love it when
he says "Unless I'm wrong, but I'm not." There are so many Monk-isms that
parallel my life. I love the TV commercial where he goes in to the grocery store
and ends up with a cart full of expired goods. My children watch me
carefully in the grocery and video stores so I won't embarass them. If I stand too
long in one spot, I feel the need to rearrange products in correct order. I
have even threatened them that I'd get a second job in the video store so I
could properly alphabetize the entire store.
When my children were very young, I always watched tv with them so I could
relate library lessons and information skills to the familiar culture of my
students. Now that I have 4 teenagers, I watch techTV, dramas, movies, anime,
biographies and documentaries. I am out-of-touch with the tv shows that are
most popular with my youngest group. Monk is my grown-up humor. What TV shows
do your youngest students identify with? Since my boys go to school next week
but I don't for 10 days, I can do a crash course in elementary pop culture.
TIA.
Diane R. Chen, Library Information Specialist
Hickman Elementary, Nashville, TN
Email: _DianeRChen@comcast.net_ (mailto:DianeRChen@comcast.net)
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