Weather is really nice these few days, I'm feeling OK minus some headache issues. I've turned my fascination with language learning switch back on apparently and am taking up Chinese and Japanese again. The thing with me and language learning (despite having a degree in one) is this tends to happen-- serious, intense study for awhile, then I leave it for a long time, and come back. I think it's mild burn out that causes me to lose interest, but right now, it's going strong! I try not to focus on two at once, especially when there are no real ties between the two, but this one is special. I'm really enjoying myself. I do think writing is important and I do not neglect that - I have formal textbooks for Chinese and ebooks for Japanese. I still pratice pencil and paper methods. I have to say I don't particularly enjoy it when I can use a computer to input pinyin (Chinese) or romaji (Japanese) to produce the characters for me :P. Anyway, I'm enjoying that.