gecko drama

on Saturday afternoon, I turned on my air conditioner and sat down at my computer. a moment later, I heard a plop on the floor behind me. I swiveled around to check, and discovered one of the more disgusting things I have ever encountered: a gecko had fallen from my ceiling air-conditioner to the floor, and in the process had cut off his tail. so the gecko's body lay a few inches away from its severed tail, which was flailing around on its own.
needless to say, I jumped away from my computer, shrieked, and appeared in Nicki's doorway with (apparently) a panic-stricken look on my face. she came over, we both continued to shriek and watch the tail flip helplessly around, then had some more issues as the tail-less body found itself after the shock and scampered away behind my bookshelf. Nicki captured it, then when the tail lay still, picked it up and threw it away.
I wiped up the gecko blood. then I stared at this beautiful vision in a jar for awhile.

I saw a gecko in my room the next day, and wasn't even mad. just glad he had a tail fully intact.

(also, there's a video of some of this madness. if you feel interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6slzffp6E)