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. If you want to comment on my posts, comment away.   Photos Paris and Brussels Sturm vs. GAK football match Women's American football Team USA vs. Graz Giants American football The Man...The Myth...The Roommate...SUPER MIRZA Graz Styrian Wine Farm Budapest Essays and Significant Posts First 48 Hours Anti-Americanism Early Observations Mail Bag Days in May Ode to Street Food   Who is Charlie Floyd? I graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2002 with a degree in Letters. Then I decided to get a second BA in German and spent the spring finishing my degree requirements at the Karl-Franzens Universitaet in Graz, Austria. Now I'm at the University of Chicago Law School and loving every minute. This is my story, day by day.   Archives << current

Charles in Charge: Chicago "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   4/28/2004   Man, do I hate highlighters. I'm sitting in the library and everybody is fervently highlighting passages in their textbooks. Like, "This passage, right here, the one i'm painting yellow, this passage is the most important thing on Civil Procedure that I've ever read in my life. Oh Allah, bless you for allowing me the pleasure of marking this paragraph." Today an alarm went off and everybody had to go outside. I think I set off the alarm. I'm not sure how or why, but I think it was my fault. The firemen came really quickly. I wish I had been a fireman instead of an aspiring lawyer. I think it would be mostly fun, spiked with danger. And as you all know, Danger is my middle name. Okay, Patrick is, but Danger is what I would have chosen. C'mon Mom and Dad, couldn't you have picked a better name than Patrick? Charles Danger Floyd. Awesome. It's windy as hell here. I don't think it's quite as windy as Oklahoma, but it's close. They should call this town the Windy City. That would be a great nickname for Chicago. Chicago, The Windy City. I'm a genius. Maybe I should have been a jockey instead of a law student/fireman. I'd like to learn to ride horses. And then they could make a movie about me and my horse. I'd name my horse Lakemuffin. Like Seabiscuit, but tougher-sounding. Yep, should have been a jockey. A 5'-10", 195-lb jockey. Guess Lakemuffin will have to be big. 4/28/2004 12:36:00 PM