Not Looking Forward to the Convention
Protests and such started for the Republican National Convention today. Blah. It’s not that I hate when NY gets crowded, as it usually is crowded, but this is the type of thing where most people I know, including Republicans are saying “please go somewhere else”. The extra people are just extra people, you manage to get around them somehow. The extra police and security checkpoints aren’t horrible either. The protests are usually the worst. They completely block off streets and walkways, the people involved are usually after anyone not within their group, yelling at all who walk by as though you’re closely aligned with whoever they’re hating at that point. Cathy (my girlfriend, a nurse, for those who don’t know) heard about how one of the so-called protests is going to involve flooding hospitals with calls about chest pains when Bush is talking. What? That’s productive? Holding back a hospital from helping people who are actually sick and injured is easily one of the dumbest things I’ve heard yet.
What won’t be fun is my walk to work the next week as it’s generally right down Broadway through Times Square, stopping at 37th Street. Times Square will most likely be hell. Perhaps I’m jumping the gun, but any time they even close part of it for any reason - or even if it just rains - it’s hell. Cabs will be out of the question. The subway will not just be super crowded as well, but there will be few places you could probably feel less safe. That and because of the location of the stations, it’s only one or two stops anyway and I tend not to take it unless it’s pouring out. So walking it’ll stay, and there’s very little “out of the way” other then perhaps going up and down 6th Avenue or 9th Avenue, but that’ll add time to the commute and I sure know I’m not going to volunteer to do that.
Maybe things will be smooth and I’ll have little delay, doubt it, but I’ll try and play the opitimist until something crappy happens.
Perhaps I’ll carry my camera around and do some amateur photojournalism.
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