Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 32) I N T E RV I E W job and a half component is absolutely manageable. The other half — being a chemistry professor, I have some postdoctoral students and a graduate student in chemistry, and I have to commend my students for stepping up and taking on additional responsibilities during this time as well. And it’s important to maintain time with your family. We have two children, both of them married, and two grandchildren, and one of the things we really enjoy doing is spending time with our children and our grandchildren. We have a granddaughter who lives in Chicago. We’ve developed a new way of communicating, she and I. She is an avid reader, so I’m trying to read the books that she is reading. It gives us something very natural to talk about. How old is she? Ten, but she reads at a reasonably sophisticated level I’ve discovered, reading the books that she’s been reading. What are you reading now? I just finished a book called “Sister Light, Sister Dark,” which is sort of a historical fantasy novel. Tell me about your other grandchild. We have a grandson who lives here in Atlanta. He wants to be an architect. He’s 6, and the reason he wants to be an architect is because he likes moving dirt, which I think is a great reason. I have a 14-year-old who’s trying to decide if he’s going to be a chemist or a comedian. He can be both.
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