That explains it! One of the runaway processes was TextInputMenuAgent. I do have Chinese handwriting support enabled. I take Chinese classes (against my will) and whenever I need to input Chinese characters I just draw them using trackpad input because I don't know the pinyin equivalent. (Yes I still suck at Chinese, haha)
Should I try and remove those language input methods? I'm not sure if GC has input language whatever applets/widgets.
Edit: Looking at the variables I see this: showCurrentLanguage: false. Maybe that's the language switcher option? My Mac is not near me at the moment..