my hamster, my first pet,

my left-over-lettuce-from-my-burger buddy,

my pick-up line / ice breaker in the dorms,

my illegal roommate of 2.5 years...

my friend...

Pubert "Pube" Tajon

February 11, 2002 - July 24, 2004

thanks for all the goodtimes, little guy.

i'll never forget...

• all the sleepless nights of him running on his squeeky exercise wheel

• the one and only time he bit me, only because my hands smelled like chicken

• the one and only time he peed on me, only because i woke him up while he was dreaming

• the way he managed to scale up the walls and do a couple monkey bar moves to get out of his cage

• waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of him sneezing when he was sick

• the times i let him run around in my jeans

• the way he was scared of open spaces

• the way he'd sit down like a little kid, and eat the food off of his belly with his eyes closed around 2pm every afternoon

• the time he got his head stuck in a quarter-sized hole of a shoe box with his mouth full of food

• the one night, late spring 2003, when he ran out into the middle of the hallway and broke the ice between me and april

• the night i met angela and melissa because they wanted to play with him

• the way he was so good when being babysat by rose & janet

• escaping from his cage, jumping off the counter and magically appearing on the front yard

• when i came back from vegas and found escaped pube, licking at my toes

• letting him play peek-a-boo with empty toilet paper rolls

• all the times i let him run around in his excercise ball...and all the times i had to clean up his piss & shit inside the exercise ball.

• playing tug-a-war with him and a piece of toilet paper

• seeing how many seeds i could fit in his mouth

• his first fight with chomper gonzales

• "does he run around and shit or is he a lazy bitch ass like mel?"

• "his balls are HUGE"