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We’reTexas

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  1. Turkey and Wolf is great - it’s almost replaced Stein’s as our new go-to sandwich place.
  2. This could be a pretty big deal. He’s one of VE’s biggest rainmakers.
  3. Absolutely. Best burger in town, and everything else is excellent.
  4. I’ve actually had pretty austere service there too, and multiple times both at the bar and while tabled.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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