Why not try a remote job? You can stay @ home and test it out? This way if the company isn't to your liking you be able to break the contract a little easier and less of a hassle.
Or, why not try pro bono and as you are doing pro bono work you can create a portfolio in the interim?
just some thoughts.... Please don't take any advice to heart without thinking everything through.
I pity her also, that she could even conceive to dress up and poke fun of such a tragedy,
It just goes to show you how much our society has deteriorated.