more news from julian:

happy cny to you too and everyone else. i don't have a list to hijack, so once again you must do the honors and say hi and happy cny to everyone else for me. suboptimal temperatures persist, and we have been forced, nonetheless to go out and collect samples. hypothermia, etc. am slowly but surely adjusting to langorous pace of life here - most afternoons free to walk around, read by the beach, etc., instructors never terribly anxious to get lectures done (although admittedly we do have 3 hrs of them a day.)