February 18, 2003:

I had a nice conversation with Liz on the blizzard night. I hope that this winter doesn't play out so poorly that I should need to specify which blizzard. Anyway, Liz's life seems to have moved along as she planned so many years ago. From Friends, she went to Skidmore for nursing, and went back to school for a masters degree, received in 1996. She is now a nurse- practitioner at a doctor's office in Springfield Massachusetts.

Her husband has been a french teacher for more than 30 years, but is presently on a sabbatical to become a mathematics teacher. Liz grumbled that they could have taken his sabbatical at some cutsey place on the Riviera.

They have two kids who aren't kids anymore; the oldest is 29 and is still in the Navy, having graduated from the Naval Academy. The youngest is 26, and is properly employed while he works on a PHD in the sciences in Austin, Texas.

Liz enjoys her work, and her husband enjoys his work, so there are no imminent retirement plans.