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.
