My career in film

There have been a lot of photos on facebook of people describing their jobs - how they see themselves, how others see them, how parents see them.  Since I think in terms of movies, I wanted to try to give you a sense of my career path in film/TV - real and imagined.

I finished college more than a decade ago - coincidentally when A Beautiful Mind was being filmed.  The dorm in the background of this photo was where I lived my senior year.  My room was just to the right of those windows on the top floor.

  Then I got a job working for a professor running his project in Kenya studying zebras.  I felt like this:

But it was really a lot more like this:

But I felt like this:

(That's me in the background, learning how to take notes, just kidding, it's obviously Lorraine Bracco)

Then I came back to the US, moved to NYC and felt like this:

But it was really a lot more like this:

Then I decided to go back to school.  This is where the recent facebook stuff cracks me up.  So I share the best one.

And finally, this is where I have arrived (how I see myself):

And where I'd like to end up:

And if this isn't an advertisement for both the need for women in film and women in science, I don't know what is.