Sunrise walk on the beach sounds delightful!

Timelies all!

Re: Royal Baby Archie: weirdly he has several full-sized middle names. What's up with that?

Re: Kentucky Derby - I am still processing. I'm at the point of the stewards did what they had to do by the rules that are in place but I feel like the rules need to be changed. Apparently in the rest of the world the winner wouldn't have been set down to 17th.

I hope sometime this summer we get Maxximum Security, Country House, etc all in another race together.

Badminton: Piggy French!!! On a fierce little mare!! Like last year except then it was Jonelle Price on a fierce little mare!!

Now I want Piggy to win Burghley and then come back next year and win Kentucky.

Library stuff: I had no idea how many Jr high age teens hung out at the library until I started working here. . . because they are here during the time that those of us with full time jobs are at work. Also, sadly, one of the kids came in and was hoping he'd left his backpack here and alas, it is not here.

sumi, I'd been wondering where the teenagers went these days. Back in my day, it was the malls, but they're pretty much dead these days. I'm surprised about them hanging at the library, however. I would've thought some place more commercial.

I think there was always a library contingency. Most teenagers hang out in their room with their social media. Malls have been replaced with Snapchat.

Somebody was telling me about taking her middle-school-ish aged kid to hang out at Target much like we used to do at the mall. Can't remember who that was.

I used to spend quite a bit of time at the library because it was near the soccer field so I could go there after practice to wait for my ride home and be in the air conditioning. And read. But the air conditioning was definitely a factor.

Well, we've got a teen room where they don't have to be quiet. . . which means that they tend to be quite loud as they enter the library, hang out in the lobby area and of course in the teen room, on the stairs that go up to Children's Services (where they aren't supposed to be).

The traditional library contingency doesn't get the quiet, lowkey library that I remember.

Oh, that is an interesting development!

I like the idea of a teen room. It's been, um, 30 years since I worked in a public library. I remember the children's room was where a lot of parents dropped their kids off but not so much the older kids.

Oooh, I just got a request for peer feedback on Coworker Who Thinks I'm Incompetent. She's not actually a peer and is senior to me, so I am going to have to think this through. Not that I would say anything bad, but I wonder if I can come up with something actually constructive.

My country presents: welcome to Eurovision 2019, honey. Enjoy our lovely bitches. [link] (I... think it's SFW?).