In Which The Author Has A Run-In With A Juvenile Gecko

There is a teeny tiny gecko who will not leave me alone.

I've named him Charles. He's about an inch long, and incredibly inquisitive.
He's been running around my desk area and staring at me for about an hour now. Every so often he inches forward up to the edge of my desk, cocks his head, gauges the distance, shuffles his feet a little and springs onto my leg.

"Well hello! What are you doing here, little guy! I'm not your natural habitat!"

I gather him onto a little piece of paper and set him down on my desk again, and in three minutes he'll do it again.


He just did it again. This is getting silly. Has to be the fifth, seventh time he's done it.

By now he has to recognize what's going on. I set him down maybe two feet away, he runs down the book and to the corner of my desk where he observes the massive chasm. Then he sneaks along the edge of my desk with his head craned over until he's close enough to jump on my leg.


He's getting gusty now. Making bigger jumps, from farther away. Then he runs up to the top of my knee and poses until I gather him up and start him off again.

I like to think he's just practicing his jumping.

He just did it again.

I want to like, feed him. Find his parents. "This little scamp gone missing, madamn gecko?"

Get off that DS gecko. You can't even use a stylus.


....This is getting absurd.


Edit: I moved my knee away, and now he's just sort of right there at the edge of my desk, going "Uh....I thought we had a deal, bro. What gives?" NO GECKO IT IS TIME TO GROW UP AND EAT BUGS GET OFF OF ME.

Anyway I had a real post but it was dumb so instead you got to hear about Charles the Gecko. There are pictures and shoddy videos on my phone but I'm un...clever at getting them off my phone just this second. And by me I mean Samsung sucks.


Damn it Charles it is time for you to leave the nest. Stop making me sit awkwardly. If you jump on the chair of my arm I will relocate you.



Oh right real post. Uh um.

Mos Def is gonna be on Maui on the 23rd. I guess I'll be at a wedding instead. Oh well. Usually blatantly religious songs irk me. Mos Def is an exception to this rule!


....This is a real post now, right?