Love letter to an anatomist
To recap: when we last spoke I was simultaneously so bored with everything and yet riddled with the worst anxiety of my life. It was lame.
If only for the sake of this quest I'm on to Get Inspired, I thought I should write about the thing that makes me amazed enough to want to spend the next 5-7 years of my grad school life thinking about it. ( Read more... )
If only for the sake of this quest I'm on to Get Inspired, I thought I should write about the thing that makes me amazed enough to want to spend the next 5-7 years of my grad school life thinking about it. ( Read more... )
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sounds fascinating, yet creeps me out a little bit. sort of reminds me of that one, very memorable aspect of atwood's "oryx and crake" where the narrator is tuned into a live "reality tv" showing of an execution.
"yeesh, what next!?"
glad to hear you're on the Get Inspired train...my partner decided to move to Massachussets for awhile to get on that train with a Tibetan healer woman. I Don't Know what that all means, but am happy for him nonetheless. hahahaha...too bad i am stuck here and (temporarily) uninspired.
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she plagiarised that from kurt vonnegut's harrison bergeron. :P
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The autopsy is really cool. You should watch! It amazes me how way less bloody it is than I expected. The corpse just kind of looks like it's filled with fiberglass to me?
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I'm trying to come up with a pool date... Lee and I might be driving to Boston this weekend, so maybe early next week?
Otherwise you (and whoever else) should come out to Saphir tonight. It would be lovely to see you! I'll find out if there's any kind of guestlist action and get back to you.
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Oh yeah, and how about swimming on sunday?
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I would LOVE to go swimming on Sunday.
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I hope you're feeling better now, at least. Though today I have to be the lame one and cancel our pool plans, I think. Can we reschedule for tomorrow? Maybe 4:00ish? ...I have a big plan to apply for jobs all over town tomorrow, so I think a splash in the pool when I'm finished would be very nice. Today, on the other hand my stomach is feeling funny and I'm kind of just.. anxious about everything, so I'm not feeling very pooly.
Let me know if that works for you? Maybe we can do SOMETHING tomorrow, even if it isn't pool related?
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somehow it felt a little wrong, making a real person's body almost reality tv-ish. but at the same time they framed it as quite professional/educational, so i'm not sure what i think.
as a side note, i would hear the most interesting stuff from my roommate every day! like "today in class we passed around a severed head, you wouldn't believe how heavy it is!"
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And I guess some people (me included) would be totally cool with their corpse being made into such a spectacle, so I don't have problem with it in that way presuming there had to be certain measures for proper consent established. I do find the way he uses masks on the people kind of unsettling and depersonalizing and creepy though, like there's no recognition of them as having ever been a person at all, they actually are just a body.
I should probably just start studying biology. Or befriend a med student. I wanna hear about severed heads!
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