I’ve decided to try my hand at Russian. The Cyrillic alphabet itself isn’t very hard to learn, but it’ll take some work to learn the orthography (spelling rules) and all of that. I’m excited, though. Today I checked out a Teach Yourself Russian book from the library and will start going over it. Hmm, last semester I studied German during finals week; this semester it’ll be Russian, I guess.

The work on The Ball and the Cross is going along fairly well. It’ll be nice when summer’s here and I have more time for it. I want to start digitizing lots of language books from our university library here at BYU, but no matter how much I want to do it, the hard reality remains that I don’t really have that much time. Especially since I’ll be leaving on a mission in three or four months.

I’m applying for a job doing Unix systems administration and programming at BYU for the summer. That means it’s time to learn Perl. I actually learned the basics a few summers ago, and it’s not really that hard. I’ve started (reading the Perl 5 Pocket Reference and Ellie Quigley’s Perl by Example, though I think I’ll look at Learning Perl next) and hopefully can pick it up pretty fast. Lisp is also sounding quite appealing right now. Mmm.