Anu & i exchanged an interested chain of emails.. here are excerpts:

A - was very nice meeting the two of you. you'll have notchanged ONE BIT. Good. :)

Me - i know we haven't changed drastically since we left gainesville.. so, your observation is more accurate.. but it did get me think.. isn't it interesting... friends of a certain era in your life always feel you've never changed? like my school buddies think i'm just the same. i'd rather drown myself if it was really true! imagine the true level of maturity if that was the case!! scary! imagine thinking & doing those 15-16 yr old things when you are 30! do we reset ourselves to a certain behavioural benchmark (if i can call it so :)) when we meet people belonging to that benchmark's era?!

A - I've gone down that path myself and i like your reset theory...the conclusion I came to is this: If they do not find you changing, it's cos they have changed just as much. So relative change is 0. The individual change speed slows down as we get older. So our grannies will feel we have changed because they've slowed down to almost stillness :)
so, good to know we're all running side-by-side. If there's really not much running later we need to get to where we will be as fast as possible! LOL!

pssst, let the geekery of this new relativity theory be a secret till we die! :)

I love the mathematical twist she's given this.. rate of change decreases as age increases! hee hee!! i guess that's what happens when you have 2 smart women working from home on a thursday morning.. a new & improved theory of relativity!