Spring Festival Holiday Notice: Rest from January 26 to February 1

My Spring Festival holiday this year is scheduled from January 26, 2025 (the 29th day of the 12th lunar month) to February 1, 2025 (the 4th day of the first lunar month)—six days off in total, two days traveling and four days in my hometown (New Year's Eve through the 3rd day of the first lunar month). January 25 (the 28th day of the 12th lunar month) is my last working day before the holiday, and February 2 (the 5th day of the first lunar month) is my first working day after the holiday. If you have business, please reach me before or after the holiday; I cannot provide normal help during the break.

Because I will be taking the 2025 college entrance exam (gaokao), I am in the final stage of preparation. So during the Spring Festival in my hometown I will mostly be reviewing. It will be hard to spend much time gathering with relatives and friends; please understand. After the 2025 gaokao ends, we will gather again and raise our glasses together.

Wishing everyone a happy Spring Festival: may those who seek promotion be promoted, those who seek wealth grow wealthy, those who seek exam success succeed, those who want children be blessed with babies soon, and those who wish to marry wed soon. I also hope to score well on the 2025 gaokao and thus launch again into a brilliant (tough) and splendid (painful) university life.

Your Saint John Stephens Nicholas Maimaiti Tuesday-dog, whom you love or hate or feel neutral about

January 19, 2025 (the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, 2024), in a cramped dwelling in Beijing