Under the Sun
May. 5th, 2016 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Under the clouds, at the moment, and I'd like them to open up for a little while. Just be done by 2PM, when we close up for the day.
This is Derby Week in Louisville, when the city puts on a couple of parties for itself and its residents (Pegasus Parage, something called Thurby, and the Kentucky Oaks race tomorrow) and a big party for the rest of the world on Saturday. No small number of streets are closed around HSC today, and non-medical offices (like us and a couple of banks and restaurants) are closing up shop plenty early so we can get home before the parade completely wrecks traffic flows - or find a place to watch the parade, if you're so inclined. I've been here since 8AM, we've had no visitors of any stripe, and a couple of co-workers and I started our day off by goofing around in front of the building and watching LMPD remove vehicles whose owners ignored the ridiculous number of very large signs warning of today's street closures, posted since at least Monday.
So, yeah. Today's been quiet, and tomorrow will likely be so as well. Oaks Day, much of the city just shuts down. Most - darn near all - of our faculty and staff stay home or go to the races or whatever; I volunteered to be here, knowing that I'll likely have the building nearly to myself. Heck yeah I'm going to catch up on my reading.
Derby Day itself, I don't know. I'm not much for the very showy parties that accompany the day. Damned if I don't love Derby Night, though. The Highlands fills up with folks out to have a good time, everyone is in a good easygoing mood, last call is extended until 6AM. And I live close enough to that part of town that I can just walk to and from wherever.
And Sunday, there's Slur Your Role over at Kaiju and I'm planning to get in some Deadlands Noir time.
This is Derby Week in Louisville, when the city puts on a couple of parties for itself and its residents (Pegasus Parage, something called Thurby, and the Kentucky Oaks race tomorrow) and a big party for the rest of the world on Saturday. No small number of streets are closed around HSC today, and non-medical offices (like us and a couple of banks and restaurants) are closing up shop plenty early so we can get home before the parade completely wrecks traffic flows - or find a place to watch the parade, if you're so inclined. I've been here since 8AM, we've had no visitors of any stripe, and a couple of co-workers and I started our day off by goofing around in front of the building and watching LMPD remove vehicles whose owners ignored the ridiculous number of very large signs warning of today's street closures, posted since at least Monday.
So, yeah. Today's been quiet, and tomorrow will likely be so as well. Oaks Day, much of the city just shuts down. Most - darn near all - of our faculty and staff stay home or go to the races or whatever; I volunteered to be here, knowing that I'll likely have the building nearly to myself. Heck yeah I'm going to catch up on my reading.
Derby Day itself, I don't know. I'm not much for the very showy parties that accompany the day. Damned if I don't love Derby Night, though. The Highlands fills up with folks out to have a good time, everyone is in a good easygoing mood, last call is extended until 6AM. And I live close enough to that part of town that I can just walk to and from wherever.
And Sunday, there's Slur Your Role over at Kaiju and I'm planning to get in some Deadlands Noir time.
