Multae Linguae

It's January! As a matter of fact, it's been January for about three weeks now. Which really means I haven't done any posting here yet this year. I thought it was about time I changed that, although I don't really want to post here just for the sake of posting here; that is, I don't like to say anything if I don't have anything to say. This is possibly why I have trouble making small talk. But that's another tangent entirely.

Granted, I don't have much to say at the time being -- you can probably expect a little more coming once I finish up my interim class on creativity and I talk about that -- but I have one little thing to say. It actually happened a while ago, but when I looked back I discovered there's no record of it here. So here you go, blog. An update on my life.

Remember this? The part where I said I wasn't going to be a Greek major, and then noted that I'd likely be eating my words a few months from then?

Yeah, that happened.

I am now officially unofficially (that is, have updated my program but have yet to declare) a Writing and Greek major double major with a Computer Science minor. And sorry, Plato, but if I can get away with getting my credits from tragedy and epic poetry, I won't be spending a lot of time with you. I'm confused enough when I read you in my first language.

That's a funny thought -- my first language. I'm nowhere near fluent, but to an extent, I'm becoming bilingual. Trilingual if I count Latin, but I've already lost enough of it to Greek that I don't really count it any more. (I guess that makes it ironic that this post title is Latin, doesn't it?) I can't speak my second language very much, since none of its native speakers exist any more, but the fact remains that I can speak some of it. I can read some of it. I do so on a semi-regular basis. I asked for a book in it for Christmas, and I read it nearly every week (even if it is while someone else is reading the English aloud).

I'd like to learn another language, one that's still alive and being spoken and written in regularly today. I don't know when that will happen, because one new language is keeping me busy enough now. I'll add it to my imaginary list of things I'd like to do in the future, and we'll see what happens.