two weeks today i will have a new signature! i've been practising.

so much is going on right now and the timeline is short:

there's everyone arriving from north america in a week
there's the wedding in two weeks
there's the trip with everyone after the wedding for a week
there's enrolling in university which starts straight after everyone leaves
there's eric's permanent residency visa application process
there's our house-sitting plans

life is busy and i'm doing my best to see the lightest, funniest, calmest side of it...

two interesting facts about the above:

*i had my shortest/longest telephone conversation(s) this week when i was transferred to (insert large number here) different people at auckland university when trying to sort out the timetable clash that shouldn't exist but does...

to make me feel better? eat macdonalds happy meal for lunch and play with toy that makes cool noise.

*eric needs fingerprints for immigration purposes. we go to local police station. they will only take fingerprints if eric has done something wrong. we consider loitering. this is not "wrong" enough. only three places in auckland do fingerprints for immigration. we are in the zone for one particular police station that is on the other side of town (don't understand how the zoning scheme cuts across most of the city). they have only one person who can do the procedure (called putting erics finger on a stamp pad and then putting his finger on a card to record print). this person is semi-retired and only is available for a few hours on a wednesday afternoon. they are, therefore, booked up for a long time. second police station is not happy as we are not in the right zone but could squeeze us in "if they have to", but once again at an inconvenient time. third place is basically not in auckland and has a sneaky way of saying in the phone book it is in one far south suburb but is in fact in an even more further south suburb.

to make me feel better? well, really, when you explain it to someone it becomes too ridiculously funny that its impossible not to laugh. plus, there must be something cool to do in papakura so we will make a day of it and invent fun things to do in the car along the way.