reunion

T-Minus: 28 days...

Location: Salmond Hall

Objective: Home

alrighty things were looking good again people of the innerweb. after my getting lost in the woods of the botanic gardens i thought i'd lost the trail of the watery leith aqua duck... however thanks to the intervention of the helpful security staff i was back on the trail of the stream.

emerging from the garden though things were looking easy peasy... my destination lay only a single block ahead. directly across from the garden gates and everything. just to make sure i walked preciously along the leith which sunk a few metres below the sidewalk. i didn't take my eyes off it until i lost track of the leith due to a parking lot...

not just any parking lot mind you, but rather the lot of my destination...

oh RIGHT!!! i'm so sorry people of the webwide world! i totally forgot to tell you what my destination was or more importantly who i was looking for!

where is my brain the size of a peanut been lately?!?

well rather then spoil the surprise i'll just keep telling you the story...

my destination was salmond hall. a student residence. it was here that i hoped to find myself a permanent home in new zealand and thus meet the first of my criteria for the government!

all i had to do was find the one person i knew in new zealand... the university claimed this is where he lived... i had no choice but to believe the universities information. i figured why not isn't being smart and giving out information their job?

but even more critical then this question was the person i sought here?

boy was my luck holding out today! he sure was!

my legal guardian, craig, was indeed staying here... meaning i had a hope of staying with him...

now craig wasn't too surprised to see me... unlike the last time i showed up unannounced at someone from the tyrrell's doorstep... he predicted that i'd make my way to him sooner or later...

craig let me into his room... very nice i thought. be a perfect new haunt for my new life in NZ... but wasn't going to be as easy a solution at i thought.

you see craig was still very very annoyed with me over the supposed "incident" i'd caused when i "smuggled" myself over here in his bag... he got held up in costumes and the government had been giving him some trouble about going to skool here due to it... i guess... not that i know ANYTHING about how i got into his bag...

i told craig all about my situation...

now me and craig we go way back... he after all was the one who hatched and raised me... so i know him pretty good... i was a difficult hatchling to be sure, and i've made craig mad lots of times before... but this time i could tell he was REALLY mad with me... i thought for a second he'd turf me out for sure...

suddenly to my surprise he said he'd let me crash with him TILL my deadline. if i didn't find a different place at that point though craig said he'd let the government do what it wanted with me...

oh man people of the web wide world i'm feeling kinda bad. i think i might have actually caused craig some real grief... NOT that i had ANYTHING to do with my being in his bag... just craig was the one guy who usually looked out for me... and now even he is upset with me...

i'll make it up to him though! now that i at least have a roof over my head and a base of operations i'll be able to focus on getting my criteria done in no time! then i'll be able to work on making something of myself, and pay craig back for his troubles!

the "man"... or rather the "state"

okay just when i thought everyone was over the "incident", and not mad at me anymore, i thought wrong...

it turns out that the new zealand conservation department had an alterior motive for driving me personally to my destination in the south... turns out we were making a stop at the otago bureau of the department...



i've never really understood the phrase "signing my life away"... that is till now...

so for me to live here in new zealand a whole new category of immigrant status had to be invented. as of 12:04 i'm now officially a

"Landed Extracontinential Organism"

(sounds kinda like an alien invasion movie title or something!).

the reason for this weird and scary sounding title, is that in the old days when people were moving here from overseas they brought a bunch of animals over that weren't supposed to live here, and they've caused quite a mess with the local environment...

what my new status is saying is that i'm an allowed foriegn species of animal, BUT that they'll be watching me closely (i'm kinda scarred... i've seen that movie 1984. they watched people in that all the time too, and bad stuff happened!!!... hopefully 23 years later those problems have gone away...) to make sure that i behave... in an ecologically friendly sense of the word behave...

because i'm the only member of my species living in new zealand there's a bunch of other stuff i have to do as well... apparently because there's only one of me (a tyrannosaurus rex traumadorius) i'm a nationally critical animal on their endangered species list. ie. i'm as endangered an animal as they come around here!


so because i'm so "threatened" the people in the department of conservation have given me a TON of that i must follow at ALL times from here on in...

Any individaul or population of tyrannasaurus rex traumadorius:

• A. May not engage in any behaviour or activity that might threaten individual's or population's well being or survivial

• B. May not engage in any behaviour or activity that will alter or disrupt New Zealand natural habitats, species, or ecosystems

• C. Must report to the DOC (Department of Conservation) any change in habitat, territory, or ecosystem within 24 hours of change

• D. May not breed within New Zealand without permission from the D.O.C.
  

• E. Must report any and all predation of native species to the D.O.C. (with a possibility of violation of clause B.)

• F. Must assist in research efforts at better understanding species biologic and conservation needs and issues

• G. Must cooperate with D.O.C. agents and officers in any capacity or function they deem necessary to protect New Zealand's environment

where's the fun in any of that?!? now i have to follow a bunch of directives like a stupid robot!!!

even worse due to my being considered "intelligent"...

at first i might add i was very happy they said i was intellegent! that is till i found out it lead to bad things! they decided due to my almost being smart that i wasn't just an endangered species, but also an immigrant.

as of such i have the following criteria from the department of immigration, and i have to meet them before march 31!!! AHHHHHHHH

• A permenant place of residence
• Stable employment
• At least 3 signed referals or endorsement

oh man... no pressure or anything, but if i don't get these 3 things by mar. 31 st their going to ship me back to canada!!!

well people of the web wide world i'm needing to go. things to do and all that... oh boy oh boy

funny story...

hey there people of the web wide world. i know it's been a LONG time since i last posted, but i have a good excuse!!!

well you know how i was looking for a place without dinosaurs, and i found a few when i went to the library last month... well here's what roughly went down... the story must stay rough for, well, let's just say complicated reasons...

i can't say how exactly it happened, but SOMEHOW... though again i have NO idea how... i ended up SOMEHOW got lost in calgary after leaving the library, and ended up getting mixed up in craig's laundry...

for a number of reasons... most of them legal... i really can't for the life of me remember how this happened... fortunately with a brain the size of a peanut that is too be expected. phew or i'd be one dead meat t-rex right now...

now in my defense from all the allegations flying around as of late, craig SHOULD have checked his luggage more diligently!!! whose to say i didn't fall in there several days before he left as opposed to seconds before he grabbed his bags from the cars' trunk at the airport... i certainly couldn't say!

due to his affiliation with the tyrrell museum several countries customs didn't ask as to why he had a tyrannosaurus skeleton in his luggage... all but one, and here's where i got in a lot of trouble...

craig you see was heading to new zealand to try and become a teacher, and well new zealand it turns out is very picky as to what kinds of critters they do and more important DON'T let into their country...

they have a thing called bio-security that screens all incoming goods and luggage for intruding organisms... including dinosaurs it would appear... well sort of anyway.

they'd never seen a dinosaur before, but they recognized me as an undeclared predatory animal of some kind. man i don't think i've ever seen craig so surprised or mad at the same time before as when they opened his bag to find me, and i've done some stupid things before! now again i have NO idea how i got there. i certainly didn't sneak into his car the night before he left so i could catch a free ride to new zealand where there just happen to be no other dinosaurs... and they couldn't prove it.

craig was really mad at me... oops... but fortunately they let him off with just a stern yelling at...

he got off easy if you ask me, but when you hear his side of it you'd think i actually got him arrested as opposed to just threatened with it...

boy, at least he didn't have to spend the last MONTH in quarantine!!!

yeah since i was listed as a dependent of craig's, and he couldn't afford to fly me back to canada i was a landed pest... however since i could speak for myself they couldn't get rid of me the "usual" way... whatever that is. won't it be the same as flying me home?... new zealand customs deemed i could remain in the country...

so long as i wasn't a threat to their native environment... as of such i was locked up in a special building kinda like in a movie to make sure i didn't have a cold or something...

now i'm about to be released, and i can see about making a place for myself here in this new zealand...