I had coffee with Jessica today at a Starbucks. She and her husband had driven up from Florida where they now live to visit both their families for Christmas. I have written about her before but the short story is that she came to our astronomy club at age 14 when she was in High School and said she wanted to build a telescope! She went on to college here on Long Island, at Stony Brook University where she got a Bachelors and a Masters, and then worked for a few years at a high tech science center. Then off to the University of Arizona for her PhD in Astrophysics, which she completed recently, and which I celebrated here on the blog. She is now doing her Post Doc work at a university in Florida. So we had a lot to talk about and probably spent three hours catching up! She is holding her note book where she keeps all kinds of notes, and when I asked her a question about some NASA sounding rocket that she hopes to use to lift a telescope up above the atmosphere to study a particular type of star, she went to her notebook for her answer! I was thinking we had known each other for about 16 years, and that somehow didn't seem like that long, until she said: "Ken, I have known you for half my life!" Wow! What a wonderful afternoon catching up!
2 comments:
Happy you had an opportunity to visit and catch up. Amazing to hear of Jessica's education and work. Love the comment she has know you for one half of her life. Joan
Jessica’s comment blew me away!! Half her life! Doesn’t seem possible since the first time you wrote about her when she wanted to build a telescope. So glad you both could catch up.
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