Day Twenty: The End is Near...Very Near...

As the reader will no doubt gather from the fashion in which I have titled this entry, (while the internship itself is but only half complete or so) our scientific method at the MRI laboratory seems to be coming to a close, the scanning being finished and our data completely collected last week, and the organization and assessment of the data being completed in the last two days; only the presentation of our month's work has yet to be completed to call our scientific process this summer complete.

This planning for the final portion of our scientific inquiry has thus been my day's work; I first reacquainted myself with the workings of this Powerpoint program with which I have not worked in several years (a task as painful as the first several days of Matlab (see Day Two and Day Three entries if you need reminding of this degree of revulsion) : the reader should know well by now that, being a traditionalist and romantic of the worst possible extremes, I am predictably averse to technology in oration when a simple grasp of elocution will achieve a more poignant effect - Daniel Webster didn't have Powerpoint when he replied to Hayne, now did he!?), a task that proved much more time consuming than I originally planned, consuming all of the day's hours up to 3:00. But enough of my characteristic technological, neo-Luddite parathetical remarks - I suppose this is worthwhile and not harmful to my efforts, however, considering the amount of time the completion of the experimentation has left to me to plan for the final presentation on August 24th, and in any case I am quite an expert on the functionings of Powerpoint, if I might say so myself...

If the reader has not, contrary to my assumptions, picked-up on my extreme shade of traditionalism, let this incident be an indicator to you: at the 8:45 meeting this morning Mr. Callens provided for a reason behind his cheerful mood this morning the "break-up" of two individuals whose names escape me now. Amidst the conversation that this assertion aroused I thought it best to keep my complete bewilderment a secret - I had no earthly idea who these people the rest of the crowd was rabbling on about were...At first I thought this couple was in the Imaging Science Building, and I simply had not had the chance to meet this romantic couple, but I soon gathered that this was an ostensibly famous duo who have appeared on television and sing or something, as the clarification of some of my fellow interns told me...It seems that some were humored by my lack of knowledge of this famous couple, but I suppose it is just an indication of my utter lack of familiarity with American popular culture; maybe my head is just too often "in the books"...

This being said, I spent the last two hours of my day in the library browsing the shelves; found a very interesting book that contains the musical themes from every notable piece of classical music (in musical notation) and relished an hour and a half perusing the pages of both familiar and obscure musical lines...

As always, I look forward to tomorrows "lunch talks" in the college of science, admittedly for the food but also the material it provides for critique in my blog...I suppose the reader has that to look forward to as well...

And throughout this whole entry, I have been looking forward to telling you that today's "Classical Piece of the Day" is...
Claude Debussy's Golliwog's Cakewalk from Children's Conrer
(Note: There are a multitude of reasons for my inclusion of the "Classical Piece of the Day" in this blog, with only some being to compete with Jason's similar blog feature - although I get the idea that I am failing miserably - and for my own personal reflection. I can say that I do not feature a piece everyday so that the reader may be merely humored (as I am told people are); I have the hopes that it will be an enlighting experience for the reader and that it will compel them to persue the pieces I feature further...They all are wonderful songs that I hope I can expose for those who have seldom heard the joys of orchestral music their true wonders...All the pieces are included in the musical archives of www.classicalarchives.com... and now I believe my quixotic rant is done...)

Good Day,
Tyler C. Lucero