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travel
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law school, travel
Exile in Bondi: First Impressions of Sydney
07.30.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsSo I’m living in Sydney for a while. Been here a couple weeks and am starting to get a feel for the city, its contours and crannies. The city is only now getting back to normal I’m told. My arrival coincided with World Youth Day 2008, a gathering of young Catholics and their guitar-playing, slightly [...]
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travel
300,000 Drunken Southerners in the Dark: Does Savannah Have the Best St. Patricks Day in the World?
03.21.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsMy Spring Break was last week. After skipping around the southeast for a little while visiting family, I began what will likely be the most heroic undertaking of my life. I set myself upon a quest for truth, a journey into the seedy underworld where Catholicism, public intoxication, mutated plant life, centuries of oppression, green [...]
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travel
Trepidation and Mild Disdain in Las Vegas
I’m not a Las Vegas kind of guy. The city baffles me in ways that other locations don’t. During a weekend bachelor party this became clear to me as I spent an more time trying to adjust myself to the surreality of my surroundings than drinking and staring at women in various stages of undress. [...]
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law school, travel
1L Dispatch: What I Did on my Winter Vacation
I think that if I ever actually do get a real job, I’m going to have a very hard time getting used to not getting damn near a month off every Winter. I’m not sure why college (and law) students need so much time between the Fall and Spring semesters, but I do know that [...]
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travel
Beards, Books, and Beer: Portland Rock City
Ah, the Pacific Northwest. It’s a land of tall trees and grey skies, where the men are bearded and draped in flannel and the women are strong and the coffee is stronger. The entire region smells faintly like pie. At least that’s how I always imagined it. But there’s more to the place than [...]
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Images, travel
Is that you John Wayne?
07.10.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsAt the airport in Orange County, they know how to honor true American heroes. And if I hear anyone say that his real name is Marion, I will soundly thrash them about the head and neck. No true American heroes have girl names. Except for the girls, I guess. Betsy Ross had a girl name. [...]
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