I'll have to go to them of course, but that's not a big deal. Would school really spring for the cost of setting up an office just for me? It'd be pre...ty damned expensive with all that computer gear."Vanessa said, "Between the school, the Corvallis and Oregon Boards of Education, OSU, your parents and us, I'm sure the money could be located, especially if we wait a couple of months before we ask them, and you've got the number of courses finished that you indicated. What did you say? 'Three. The forty-four year old woman held the edge of her door with her left hand high. Her right hand rested on her hip as she offered the man a petulant smile."You're late," she said. "I was thinking of going out." I was delayed," Wolfgang shrugged, removing his hand from behind his back. "It's not so easy to find roses in Berlin this time of year." A gentleman!" Geli laughed lightly, making her suddenly seem twenty years younger. She took the flowers, a half-dozen red roses, with a graceful gesture. As time passed, the lights went out one by one, but in some rare cases, they’d turn back on. In times of disaster, it’s natural for humans to search each other out, for both resources and strength in numbers. Power plants, built to withstand wars and natural disasters, and the towns around them, became a hotbed of refugee camps and new communities. Gather enough engineers together and they could even get the plants going again. The humans flocked to the lights like moths and formed a defense. I had just been hired as a personnel manager for a tech firm,that was having issues with it's "boy's club" attitude. I have been inpersonnel law and management for many years and generally was hiredwhen the boss wanted to clean up a mess that they had allowed tofester, before it became a public relations nightmare. Beckie was atalented artist who could sell her work online and didn't need a fixedoffice, just a nice studio. They must have been pretty desperate as thefirm purchased a home for me.