The short of it is: they are both back in E Lansing. Both are *working* there! Both are *still* going to school there!! (OK, Valdemort’s on her 5th year and 2nd major; Nook still has at least 3 years to go - depending on the bells & whistles she chooses for her major.)
Nook is doing Desk Receptionist duty at her complex - she’s the “one-and-only” for another week, then more come in for training. Then school starts, and she (and the others) rotate based on chosen total hours per week and class schedules. At least Nook gets the benefit of learning the job *now* and not in the crush of EVERYONE moving in at once!
Valdemort is still interning with the USDA Forest Service, fighting the fact that she does NOT have “admin privileges” for her work compy and yet *needs* to install various small apps to actually DO her job…. go figger. Then the end of the week, she’s off for the Great White North - norther than the Cabin, even - to do Geology Stuff for a research project.
In between the last post and this, V’s beloved G4 iBook bit the dust (for all practical purposes). We bought a *new* MacBook (black) AND a 16GB iPod Touch to replace the poor-old-worn-out-items (yes, she still was using her original iPod, too). She is busily making both items “hers”. Short of getting the data off the old iBook’s hard drive, that is. The $10 case we bought Sunday PM didn’t have the right connectors, even though it *claimed* to be Mac-compatible. *sigh*
The trip to E L on Monday after work succeeded in the exchange of vehicles, the drop-off of the remaining dorm items for Nook, and a fruitless trip to the AT&T store to try to do some sort of transfer from our current contract to iPod-compatible carrier….guess we just have to be patient (and hope my RAZR holds out long enough) until next May. *bleah*