- UnReidable Chapter 29 – July 1997: Dordogne, France The long summer of 1997 should have been some of the best days of my life. I’d just finished my law school final exams, I went on a two-week road trip to the Channel Islands and France with some of my best friends, and then we had nightly graduation parties in Edinburgh for a week. […]
- UnReidable Chapter 28 – July 2001: Edinburgh, Scotland The summer of 2001 had started well for me. I had just finished a successful stint working with the Scottish Parliament, and I had accepted a new job, perhaps my dream job, working as a mediator in Edinburgh. Kristy and I had just returned to Scotland from a two-week vacation in Chicago and Kansas City, […]
- UnReidable Chapter 27 – July 2010: Austin, Texas I’ve taken two Bar Exams in my life and both were miserable experiences. Each of them featured long periods of intensive studying, and equally long periods of intensive procrastination. In July 2010, Farah and I had just moved back to Austin from NYC, and I spent most of that summer doing two things: working towards […]
- UnReidable Chapter 26 – July 1996: Chicago, Illinois I spent a lot of July 1996 on a train, trundling across the vastness of North America with my best mate Nelly. It was the perfect way to reflect on a long and tortuous year that began and ended in Austin. But I was also worried about what lay in wait when it was time […]