I’ve reached a point nowadays where people have begun to ask me what I do because I am noticeably slimmer. And while I try not to get into too much detail—since I already know that people react to the cold, hard facts differently—I don’t hide what I do either. “I wake up at four-thirty in… Continue reading this entry

There really isn’t much I’m allowed to talk about when it comes to work. I can’t talk about the donors who have given their bodies over to science, since not only would that violate the employment agreement I signed, but it’s also not a decent thing to do. I can say that the pace here… Continue reading this entry

Last week I started my new job as an anatomist at a local tissue bank. “Anatomist,” you say? The main duty, though the one that takes the least time doing, of the position is to perform dissections on cadavers in order to procure their parts for research purposes. Researchers who need body parts then contact… Continue reading this entry