I'm going to Harbin on Monday with Andrea and three days sightseeing in the city I was born in. After that, Andrea goes back to Beijing, but I'm probably going to stay over New Years. That's four weeks, until end of February.
Detailed and long-winded tales of my travels will appear, I promise. I expect I will have a lot of time to write, as soon as I settle into the quotidian lull of four weeks' vacation in one place.

Blake (on getting a seat on a Chinese bus for the first time):
"WOW!! I feel like a ROCKSTAR!!"
(later, trying to get off said bus)
"Please give me some space! I'm really really fat!!"
(I assume people moved out of the way because he was yelling in English, not because he's, y'know, big-boned.)