Yay! Gabon's making headlines!

Oh wait, but not for anything good.  Please see the wonderfully-written nytimes article on the recent developments here.  In brief, the president of Gabon ("Africa's longest-entrenched autocrat") died this weekend.  The government has responded by closing the airport and borders and imposing a curfew.  But everything's just fine here, so please don't worry.  We are far from the capital, which is where things usually go down anyway.  Just wanted to write a quick note in case anyone was worried about me being in the middle of a politically-unstable central african nation.  And now back to your regularly-scheduled programming.