Most of the board members have left, and the room is starting to empty out.
Meanwhile, the houses in multiple-occupation (HMO) that sustained The Young Ones – the once-neglected Victorian inner-city stock – are starting to empty out.
"Producing is like a conversation, and you need to make sure there is somebody on the other side of that table," says Jean M. Prewitt, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), from her booth in the Riviera, in which the stands are starting to empty out as companies pack up and head home.
Then, just as the stadium was starting to empty and James Milner was being announced as man of the match, he did the same.
By noon on Sunday, the center was starting to empty as people found ways to get home, even if the city's public transit system was still shut down.
The international hotels here are starting to empty; the restaurants and bars are bringing their tables in off the streets; and a queasy, quiet sense of dread is coiling itself round Nairobi, as the country waits to see what - beyond the two grenade attacks this week - Kenya's military offensive inside neighbouring Somalia might yet provoke by way of retaliation.
"Seats are starting to fly empty," said Daniel Kasper, an analyst with Harbridge House, a consulting firm in Boston.
Curiosity and compassion During the times when I was starting to feel empty and exhausted, I mindfully gave myself the time-out that I needed to rejuvenate.
Developers are noticing, and construction of new, sleek glass and steel condos are starting to rise up where empty lots or buildings previously stood for decades.
One or two pop-up businesses are starting to emerge spontaneously from the empty boulevards and model shop fronts.
