My First Gecko
Oct. 5th, 2003 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaA few weeks ago, I was sent on a business trip to Miami Lakes. Most of my time seemed to be spent inside a windowless office watching Brazilian and Mexican TV programmes, eating bagels, but thinking about the palm trees outside. They were beautiful, I tell you.
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I passed a number of signs that said "Okeechobee". It's a word that I just couldn't help saying over and over again after reading it. Okeechobee Okeechobee Okeechobee.
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I stepped off South Beach and into the sea, drifting next to a bird that didn't look real, a big bird that I thought might be remote controlled. Large beak, large wingspan, strange colour, definitely not a seagull, but maybe a pelican? I didn't notice I had gone so far while being pulled along by the waves until I turned and the lifeguard's tower was some distance away and now on my right. My work colleague who was sitting on the sand had disappeared from sight. Earlier I had sat there, next to him, my legs coated in a layer of crushed shell stuck to suncream. It was a cloudy day though, windy. The palm trees flickered.
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I gazed at art deco, sipped Pepsi Blue, ate Argentinian ice-cream - "spring", "dolce de leche", "sanbanya". Very tasty.
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It was the evening and the warmth of the outdoors made me feel snug as geckos darted across the path every time I took a footstep.
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I passed a number of signs that said "Okeechobee". It's a word that I just couldn't help saying over and over again after reading it. Okeechobee Okeechobee Okeechobee.
--
I stepped off South Beach and into the sea, drifting next to a bird that didn't look real, a big bird that I thought might be remote controlled. Large beak, large wingspan, strange colour, definitely not a seagull, but maybe a pelican? I didn't notice I had gone so far while being pulled along by the waves until I turned and the lifeguard's tower was some distance away and now on my right. My work colleague who was sitting on the sand had disappeared from sight. Earlier I had sat there, next to him, my legs coated in a layer of crushed shell stuck to suncream. It was a cloudy day though, windy. The palm trees flickered.
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I gazed at art deco, sipped Pepsi Blue, ate Argentinian ice-cream - "spring", "dolce de leche", "sanbanya". Very tasty.
--
It was the evening and the warmth of the outdoors made me feel snug as geckos darted across the path every time I took a footstep.
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Nice
Date: 2003-10-05 02:16 pm (UTC)Re: Nice
Date: 2003-10-05 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-05 08:35 pm (UTC)y head has been lodged up my arse.
you painted a lovely picture of miami.
a much prettier picture than doug did of florida...
the word Okeechobee has multiple meanings to me.
growing up, my father would always say it in various silly voices while we passed it here and there. he'd always say:
"we're on Okeechobee road!"
or
"we missed Okeechobee Boulevard!"
or my personal favorite:
"hey girls! it's Lake Okeechobee!"
he also called us both "chobee," affectiontely.
looks pretty dumb all typed out like this.
i guess you'd have to see/hear my dad
for the full experiential package.
xxx
j
Okeechobee
Date: 2003-10-06 09:03 am (UTC)When I was a small child, I had a fixation on the letter "b", which influenced my parents to call my brother "Toby", so I guess me liking "okeechobee" isn't surprising. :)
Re: Okeechobee
Date: 2003-10-06 12:35 pm (UTC)is how we pronouced it...but i think you should say it how you most like it to sound.
chobee love,
jaime
no subject
Date: 2003-10-06 07:22 pm (UTC)pepsi blue + dr. pepper = green watermelon
pepsi blue + mountain due code red = purple
wierd, i was thinking about mixing up some wierd shit with the blue earlier today.
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Pepsi Blue mixed
Date: 2003-10-07 02:11 am (UTC)Re: Pepsi Blue mixed
Date: 2003-10-17 01:52 pm (UTC)-