So alone...

*** UPDATE

I found one. I'll stay in New Zealand. 

They don't have hardcover grid-paper notebooks here. That's what I like to use when I am working on little projects that involve diagrams and calculations. I also like to use grid-paper notebooks for geology lab notes. I have a geology lab course (or "paper" as they call them here) that actually requires me to hand in my lab book, so the notebook was essential. 

I had a tiny pseudo panic-attack today when I went into several shops and wasn't able to find this particular type of notebook. I don't know why this is so disturbing to me, but it is. It wasn't until one shop manager told me that he'd never heard of such a thing and didn't think they existed that I really realized that I am on an island. A cold, gridpaper notebookless island, with no means of escape. 

I guess I'll have to come home... or I could get a 7mm ruled hardcover notebook. 

I'd better start looking at plane tickets.