Pug’s Place

So… I’m back from spending ~10 days in Greenville, South Carolina having a mighty good time with Katie, Jen and Cort. I had a wonderful time and did plenty of fun things with highlights like:

• Seeing the Furman Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio perform Mozart’s Symphony No 38, Prague, Great Mass in C Minor and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Katie was in this Oratorio making it extra special.
• General fun hanging-out-with Jen and Cort (at whose apartment I was so generously allowed to stay)
• Attending Furman’s Honors Night to see Katie get an award for her poetry.
• Eating a lot of really good food prepared by Cort, who is a very competent chef (Thank you Cort! Thank you Jen!)
• Attending Katie’s induction into Phi Beta Kappa (WOOHOO, KATIE!).
• Lazing around Furman and Furman’s library reading good books like ones starring Lord Peter.
• Watching the Furman Theatre’s rendition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (which was very well performed and wholly enjoyable).

All in all it was a wonderful vacation. And while this isn’t the proper medium for expressing gratitude to my hosts, I’m going to do it anyway for they were of exceptional kindness: Thank you again, Cort and Jen!

I was greatly amused at just how sparse Furman’s campus is, even during peak times during a primary part of their school year (their Spring term isn’t complete until the end of May). The density of students walking around is very, very low compared to UF. Of course UF has 10 times the student body but Furman’s campus is tiny compared to that of the whole of UF. I mention this because now I am for the first time taking summer courses here in Gainesville and, amusingly, the student density here is very similar to Furman’s right now. The campus is practically deserted. Thus the title of this blog post: UF in the summer does look like Furman in the spring.

Both my classwork and my office-work are looking to be greatly interesting and worthwhile. I’ll blog about the former and perhaps some general notes on Asterisk (the open source PBX) at a later date.