Hello. Welcome to my website. It started while I was in Europe for a semester, and I've kept it up since then. I'm now at the University of Chicago Law School, living in Hyde Park, and the story continues. If you want to say hi or visit me, email cfloyd at uchicago dot edu.
"Life is nothing if not the sum of your anecdotes." -Scotty The Body, on storytelling "But it ain't that bad, man. Just figure out the system before the system figures out you." -T. Matthew Smith, on the 1L year "The beer just doesn't taste as good when you're not drinking it with your buddies." -Anon., on being away from good friends "Somebody has to pay the rent around here. Why the hell not us?" -Cotton, on studying for exams
5/18/2003
I saw two things today that I had never seen firsthand before in my life.
The first is a hedgehog. Strangest thing--little bugger crawled out of the bushes in front of my apartment as I walked up. I tried to startle it into a ball, but it just scurried away.
The second is American football played by women. My friend Jonathon, the same one who took me last weekend to Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium, gave me today an altogether different experience. We saw an eight-on-eight football game between the Black Widows of Graz and the Lady Vikings of Vienna. It was, in a word, spectacular. The ladies played an excellent game of football, which featured grinding-up-the-middle runs as well as misdirection sweeps, tight end out-routes and wide reciever posts, and even quarterback draws and sneaks on fourth down. There was exactly one punt in four twelve-minute quarters. It reminded me of intramural flag football at the University of Oklahoma, because of the smaller teams, the refusal to surrender on fourth down, and the endless two-point-conversion attempts. Except they wore pads and tackled each other. Hard. The spectators numbered about one hundred, and we sat on the grass. Oh, and did I mention the "Cheerboys" at halftime? The whole thing was surreal. Except the competitive nature of the game. There was no doubt these "chicks" came to play, and enjoyed watching them immensely. Like last week, I'll hopefully post pictures tomorrow.
5/18/2003 02:30:00 PM
