Excellent life choices.
Lisp is great; I started using Common Lisp around a decade ago, and have never found anything better, except maybe Forth. I recommend reading _On Lisp_ and _Let Over Lambda_, in that order. You'll know things that a billion pajeets writing Java can never imagine.
As for projects, I recently made a miniaturized version of Antimicro. I spend a lot of time thinking about designs for computers, OSes and languages to make computing fun again.
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