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April 10, 2008
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My apartment has served as a waystation for several Trib employees. It’s basically become a boarding house for whoever needs a place to crash for a while.
Generally, my roomies — itinerant journos, all — have come and gone in a matter of months. My last boarder, Alejandro Cortes, returned to his native Mexico City after a recent corporate downsizing, but now has his sights on an excellent job opportunity in North Carolina. My other former roomies have landed in Tempe, Ariz., Knoxville, Tenn., and Denver.
Now I’m sharing my humble pad with an entirely different animal. She weighs maybe 6 ounces, is brown (but can change to green and black, depending on her mood), climbs walls, loves to eat crickets and worms, and has wee-black eyes that move independent of each other.
She’s crazy as a road lizard. Hell, she IS a lizard, an Anole to be specific. From Florida.
She hijacked her way to Colorado a month ago when another former Trib newsie, Nancy Nemec (who’s never boarded at my place, BTW), flew back from a vacation in the Sunshine State. Nancy was unpacking her swimsuit bag when this little stow-away (now named Stowie) popped out.
Stowie was first taken in by the paper’s resident reptile enthusiast, Amy Nickelson, but found her way to my place when I mentioned I had a free room. So now Stowie inhabits the boarder’s quarters, in a 20-gallon terrarium tank supplied by my nephews Joey and Evan, also reptile lovers.
I never thought I’d be talking to a lizard. But I do. Never thought I’d get to know the proprietors of the local reptile store by their first names. But I have. Never thought I’d be buying crickets by the dozen. But I do.
Stowie seems to like her new digs. She’s 2,500 miles from home in an arid climate totally lacking in humidity and palm trees. I get the impression, though, that as long as I keep dropping crickets and worms in her dish every day, she’s quite content.
She might even be a roommate who sticks around for a while.
Too bad she won’t split the rent and cable bill.
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