One idea I had from the end of last year was that I would possibly get involved in developing for DW. Mostly because learning a useful higher-level language is something that's been on my to-do list forever (I know Verilog, which is hardware, and Matlab. Neither of these is useful outside their specific contexts), and I learn better when I have a project. So I looked at the Getting Started FAQ and decided that although perl isn't my first choice, it's all right and I certainly know a lot of people who know it. (Most of whom would look at me strangely for choosing it to learn first, but there you go.)

Thing is, I got a new project at work. And it's going to require me to learn Python and Blender, because there's some serious hardware hilarity that's going to happen. But it's a cool project.

But because it means I'm learning Python (and git! I drank the git Kool-Aid! No more svn for me), trying to learn perl at the same time is just asking for syntax errors. Although, god, there's a personal project where perl is probably a more correct answer.

Some days, I swear the universe is trying to tell me I chose the wrong major.