Bodies & Jobs

I just got back from the Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute. It's pretty crazy. Some of the diseased organs are pretty nasty, like the kidneys covered with cysts, and the dilated aorta, but mostly it's just fascinating. My favorite was the series on the cardiovascular system, where besides going through heart disease and the like, there were limbs and a group of bodies where the whole system had been plasticized -- all the arteries and veins down to the smallest capillaries -- and all the other tissue had been removed, including the skeleton. Just a whole body of what looked like very fine red netting. Crazy. The only thing that really disturbed me were the examples of birth defects...I had no idea things like that happened. A cleft palate can be fixed, but when the chest cavity or the skull don't grow together properly, or at all, there's nothing anyone can do, the baby just can't survive. It's awful.

Anyway, let's not be totally morbid here. It's spring break and I'm still at school. I went home for the weekend and came back on Tuesday to do some video stuff, and I'll go back home tomorrow afternoon. My brother was at Dickinson over the weekend, came back Sunday, and moved out Monday morning to go live at Longwood for the next two years, for the Professional Gardener program. So I haven't seen him at all, really, which is quite sad. Other than that, I'm getting really stressed out about finding a job; I started seriously searching this week, and it's rather overwhelming, I've never had to do a job search like this before. If anyone knows where I can get into something with independent film, preferably where I can write, and definitely where I'm getting paid, let me know!