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
2/18/2003
Stoney LaRue and Travis Linville, Monday nights, at the Deli on Campus Corner: truly outstanding. I went last night to get a final taste of "Red Dirt" music before I leave town. Yeah, the Deli is a dive. What of it? The charm of that place is in its run-down nature. The beer is cheap, the ceiling's hazy, and the crowd is a happy mix of college-town types. The best part is that folks aren't there to be seen. They're there to see the music. And the music is great.
I was sitting, loving life, listening to the crowd sing along with a Waylon Jennings cover, and I thought of the Kurt Vonnegut speech I saw last Wednesday at Oklahoma City University. Vonnegut talked about his uncle, who once stopped everything at a family gathering to ask, "How great is this?" The point he made was that we are often unaware of the joyful moments in life until they are past. At the Deli last night, I made an effort in the middle of my happiness to think, "How great is this!" It made the moment that much better.
It makes me kind of sad that I won't be able to go to the Deli for a long time. It also makes me sad that I won't be able to get happy through the familiar means I've come across in Norman, OK. But then I think back to my philosophy teacher Paul Dykes. He used to tell a story of a letter from a student that ended with, "It just keeps getting better." Hopefully that is true. I'll miss my Norman friends and places. But I'm sure life will just keep getting better.
2/18/2003 04:40:00 PM
