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  1. We’reTexas
    It’s pretty awesome. Race begins at 8am and you need to get there earlier for a good starting spot (you want to get close to the gate to make sure you make it in with bulls), but there will be plenty of people hammered out from the night before. It’s basically bourbon street 24/7, at least on opening weekend. After that, spend the day pounding kalimotxo in the plaza and watching the bull fights.
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    Beginning my first summer in SF after leaving Texas. While I miss wearing shorts and flip flops and the fog can be a bummer, I can’t remember what we used to do for four months of scorching heat. People here flip out when it approaches 80.
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    I left Texas last year and will reiterate emphatically the Tex-Mex/BBQ line. Southern cooking in general - I spent a week in NOLA. Outdoors stuff, not so much. You are moving to a beautiful area of the country and are going to wonder how you spent so much of your life in sweltering prairie land.
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    Second all of this - when we stay in the wine country we prefer healdsburg. Cartograph and Idlewild are great tasting rooms. Make a stop at the new Russian River beer hall on the way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Completely agree - we moved to SF from Houston and it was quite a shock at first, but we got over it quickly (the space change, I mean - prices are a neverending gut punch). We are outdoors all weekends and most weeknights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Also Zombie Village (new, in Tenderloin) and Bon Voyage (new-ish, in Mission). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Pretty much impossible, the vast majority of the pledge class is already somewhat allocated to legacies/siblings/HS friends by the time rush begins. My wife was a Chi O and I had to deal with her complaining all the time around this time of the year. I forget how this was always the dead time of the year, with all the girls tied up for rush. Nothing to do but hang out at abel’s and try and get the rushees from Hardin to talk to you as they walked down Rio Grande.
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    I know you don’t mean it that way, but that’s not fair to the place. Tory McPhail is one of best chefs in the southeast, and Ella Brennan worked to keep it innovative for decades (they began doing “farm to table” in the ‘80’s). It’s a high-level restaurant ensconced in what your notion of what New Orleans should be, which is a challenging task. Also $0.25 martinis.
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    ^^^. That’s Verti Marte time.
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    Sell. Me. A. Vibrator.
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    Turkey and Wolf is great - it’s almost replaced Stein’s as our new go-to sandwich place.
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    This could be a pretty big deal. He’s one of VE’s biggest rainmakers.
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    Absolutely. Best burger in town, and everything else is excellent.
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    I’ve actually had pretty austere service there too, and multiple times both at the bar and while tabled.
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    People rent cars in Vegas?
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    I’m a midlevel M&A/securities associate at a biglaw firm. Lifestyle is comparable to my IDB friends at associate/VP level, though not as bad as the analyst days. As others have mentioned, a great deal of it is downtime - especially in banking, where’s there’s generally more of a face time requirement - and there is a great deal of unpredictability in actual work flow. I don’t really know how to say how many hours I work per week. Emails began around 7 am and stop around midnight, so I am generally up past 12 doing stuff most weeknight. But I wouldn’t say I work 16 hours a day at all. I think it’s more accurate to say professional services require extreme availability. It’s the existential dread I feel when my phone vibrates on a weekend, not sleeping for four days, and inability to make any sort of firm commitment to my family and friends are the true stressors in this line of work, not sitting at a desk 12 hours a day.
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    Interestingly, they made their first public filing almost two years ago and never updated (or resolved any renaming SEC comments they may have had). Looks like this has been dead for some time and they finally got around to withdrawing the S-1.
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    Actually had a 24 hour layover last week - Taipei is awesome. We just referred to the Eater 38 for the city and bounced around. Din Tai Fung for dumplings, Wistaria for tea, and Gongguan night market for street food. That one was OK, but looks like there were much better night markets to hit up (like Raohe). As for sights, lots of great temples, particularly in Zhongzheng. Really wish we had time to head out to the National Palace Museum, and looks like there’s some good hiking in the surrounding parks. Taipe was an unexpected hit and I wish we had several days there, incredible food city. Looking forward to your report back.
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    Disagree - think Bayona is one of the best old-ish line choices in the quarter. We go often and last did a special event dinner a few months ago, thought Spicer was still going strong.

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