A bit of make-believe, if you will.

It wasn't long after I decided to be a librarian that I started noticing how cultishly cool the profession is. Take Noah Wyle, for example. It wasn't enough for him to be a roguishly handsome doctor on E.R. Nor, it seems, could he remain in that immortally cool classic, Donnie Darko. No, there were better things for his career. He moved on to representing true librarians everywhere in the TNT presentation "Librarian: Quest for the Spear." Doesn't is just send tingles up your spine? And that's not the end of it for Mr. Wyle. Oh, no. He knows a good thing when he sees it. Why, just today I was notified that there will be a sequel to "Librarian" airing this week. Can you imagine my excitement? And the excitement of librarians everywhere?
But I digress.
Mr. Wyle is not the only librarian to grace pop culture with his presence.
Batgirl, aka Barbara Gordon, has her MLIS. She's been helping the Bat out behind the scenes ever since she became wheelchair-bound. And that's not a bad thing, because she kicks just as much ass as a librarian as she ever did swinging around Gotham City. She doesn't even have to wear latex.
The aforementioned librarians are not the true cause of my joy, though, as you may have noticed when you read the subtitle to my blog. No, the most prestigious of this fine group of librarians is none other than Rupert Giles, Buffy's (of vampire slayer fame) Watcher. What does a Watcher do? He goes to an academy to train, then follows around the chosen vampire slayer, training her and guiding her. He pores through old tomes, wears sensible shoes and, it would reason, gives tutorials on how to use electronic databases (he is a school library media specialist after all). Giles is the epitomy of all that is cool in librarianship and I hope to follow in his steps. I don't expect to kill many vampires in my travels, although there is always hope. I am working in teen services so perhaps, like Giles, one day I may come across a young girl looking for help as she stalks the undead and I too may serve as her Watcher.