AMonk, that is a shame. However, I feel confident that you will get ample oppotunity to use your pj's. I could have a little chat with King Winter and send him your way. He's been very sulky lately, pottering about the place muttering about global warming and how annoying it will be to waste good blizzards in Sahara.
Now, I was not sure where to post this, so this thread will do: I am going to step up my Chinese studies a notch or two after New Years. The way I study is by following the lessons in Integrated Chinese, which is quite good for the written aspect. I make flashcards with the characters. Then I allocate 15 characters per week. I do the grammar, then I write each character, three lines of one, then three lines of the second and so forth. Once I have gone through all the characters like that, I go over the grammar again, then return to the flashcards.
Then I practise a bit harder on the active vocabulary. I take each room in my apartment and all the things in them whose name I don't know in Chinese, I write down on a big list. Then look them up. I then read the list over and over and over again, and jump around like a madman pointing at stuff while shouting in Chinese. I have to do that until it sticks. It all leads up to an exam each Sunday. Just to make it more fun, I also do the same with Turkish.
How do you guys do it? Any recommendations?