ok, so work faster and stop wasting time on the internets

[alexr_rwx]

Maaaan, here I am, at a liberal arts university where they teach languages, and I want to learn another one, and I could sign up for Chinese, or Arabic, or Yiddish, or a pretty large number of other ones. Those three are in decreasing order for usefulness, and also difficulty-in-learning, I expect. I've studied a little bit of German, so the primary difficulties for Yiddish would be getting up to speed with the Hebrew character set and the fact that there's basically nobody to speak it with. Arabic seems like a sweet spot here: quite a few people speak it, and I feel like I could plausibly make progress learning it due to the writing system with a finite number of characters, and how it's not tonal. Also I'm unreasonably excited about the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions.

Although: I want to stop taking classes so I can get actual work done, and even if I was of a mind to take more classes than I need to, there are a bunch of them that are interesting and relevant to my actual work, eg Markus's class on parsers and Larry's class on semantics.

There are worse problems to have!