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My friend David just started a new job in San Francisco that brought him into contact with former figure skater Brian Boitano.

The following conversation ensued, via Twitter.

David: Brian Boitano has been hitting on me all morning. Should I go for it? He’s rich right?

David: At House of Prime rib after afternoon at E & O. Had corn fritters and pulled beef sliders. Omg! BTW hanging with Boitano is awesome!

Me: If you hook up with him we’re going to start calling you boytoitano.

David: I will always call myself boytoitano whether w/ Brian or not.

My friend Megan is a teacher at a school in Honduras and has been Tumbling about what is going on there regarding ex-president Mel Zelaya returning to town, which you may have heard about on the news.

Quick background: Earlier this year, then-president Zelaya tried to change the Honduran constitution’s term limits policy so he could stay in office, but the Honduran people rose up and ousted him from his position for trying to monkey with the rules.

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Seriously, where do we live?!  That is the question Lauren and I keep asking ourselves.

Yesterday at school many students were getting pulled out by their parents.  At first we didn’t have any idea what was going on. Then the rumor was the Mel Zelaya, the ex-president was back in Tegucigalpa, after being taken out in June.  Jana and I went to talk to our principal to get the scoop from him.  We were told the the rumors were false and that Mel was still in Nicaragua.  But as the day went on the rumors and craziness continued.  The Honduran teachers were positive the he was back and were freaking out. We left school as normal and went home. About 5 minutes after getting home Lauren got a call from Ben, who was still at school, saying that everyone had to leave school and that a 4pm curfew was going into effect b/c Mel for sure was back.  What?! Lauren and I went out for a quick run before the curfew.  It was crazy to see all the traffic and people heading home from their jobs.  The curfew was first set to expire at 7am today and we would have started school at 9am, a short delay.  We continued our night as usual, making dinner and grading.  Then around 7pm we got an email saying that school was CANCELED for today and that the curfew was extended to 6pm today! What?! We just got back from 10 days off of school and now we have another day off.  Too bad I didn’t bring home a lot of work.  We watched the news/read online that Zelaya is hanging out at the Brazilian Embassy here in Tegus [no idea where that is in the city].  So for the time being we are safe and sound in our homes.  Just weird to hear such a quiet and still city.  Looking out over our balcony I can see a few cars out on the highway.  Prayers for peace and good discussion are needed.  Hopefully things will calm down soon.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an episode of Larry King Live but tonight I wandered over to CNN.com and started looking through some recent episodes. I had forgotten about the trademark Larry King Live obituary show, in which Larry has guests who knew or had worked with a recently deceased celebrity and asks them all kind of questions that they’re definitely not qualified to answer.

Here’s his question to Gary Busey (!) from the show remembering Patrick Swayze, Busey’s co-star in the 1991 film Point Break:

Larry King: You think we’ll ever lick this disease?
Gary Busey: Oh boy…
Larry King: You have faith?
Gary Busey: Yes I have great faith in that. I know we can lick it and I know it can be licked. The only trouble I have is with those big drug people wanting to keep cancer alive to sell the drugs and do the surgery.