&Ldquo;Jody’s ad was witty, so I called and left a message,” he said. “I wasn’t home when she called back, and when I realized that she heard the silly message on my answering machine, I was mortified.”
London, now 47, is an energy consultant who was elected in 2008 to a four-year term on the Oakland Board of Education; she now is serving as that body’s vice president. Aronson, 51, is a civil engineer at Dowling Associates, a transportation planning firm. They live in the Rockridge section of Oakland with their daughters, Sonia, 12, and Bebe, 10.