Day Twenty Four: My Game of "Musical Imaging Science Laboratories" Continues...

As my title for this entry would suggest, my internship experience finds me today yet again at the assistance of another laboratory within the imaging science building other than my "homebase" MRI field down in the basement, what with Tina and Allie's absence... But I realize that, owing to the nature and amount of the task I completed for Dr. Easton on the Thursday and Friday of last week, the reader may find himself or herself lacking in specific details concerning the course and nature of the last two days, and I see it as only fitting to thus briefly record a further explanation of my whereabouts and the course of events that ended in finding myself preparing photographs of the Archimedes palimpsest for post to Oxford...

On Thursday morning, intending to begin building my Powerpoint presentation, I was met by Dr. Easton, who, upon finding that Allie was absent, asked me to descend to his basement lab, and after a lecture on the ins-and outs of the Archimedes palimpsest, set me to work preparing normalized photographs of the manuscript so that they may be sent to the HUB Printing Office by the afternoon of the next day for a Dr. Wilson at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. I think it not necessary, and I am sure the reader will agree, to make detailed account of the procedure by which I prepared these normalized images, but that is not to say that I was not exceedingly thrilled, as I hope I made evident in my terse entry on Friday, to be trusted to work alone on such an important project, or so it seems to me. That my efforts have contributed to what I consider to be great project is relieving, if the reader will understand...And as I understand, the printed images I prepared are off to Oxford to be deciphered - hopefully with ease proportionate to my dedication and devotion to the project. I am aware I seem to detain the reader with petty exclamations of my fascination, but, unfortunately, Thursday and Friday have been the highlight of my internship here.

But now my experience finds me aiding the astronomers, after meeting late Friday afternoon with the certain Dr. O'Dea that I mentioned to the reader some number of entries ago: our meeting quickly led to an lecture on radio galaxies, about which I am already familiar with everything that he lugubriously explained to me, but he did not seem to take seriously my assertions that, indeed, I did know about the Bohr model of the atom and, yes, I was quite well acquainted with radio galaxy processes, and it irked and vexed me to no end as he gave me a look of doubt and only continued each time I asserted the extent of my knowledge on the subject. It is irksome to be stereotyped as an ignorant and apathetic teenager...

This is not to say that the astronomy assignment has not, thus far, gone well, receiving from a graduate student - a certain George - this morning my first task. Today, I was set to work analyzing the geometry of these radio galaxies, a job that I felt most fitting to complete in the tranquility of the library, and there I have spend most of the day, drawing lines to represent various features of the given galaxies.

If I was inclined to comment on an oddity in the nature of the scientists that I have come across in this experience, I must say that they all exhibit a ignominious and quite salient streak of "inexplicitness"; I apologize for this convoluted neologism, but I feel that the reader will understand my message regardless. Maybe I ought to use the word "vague", but this has, I think, an incorrect connotation... They lack decisiveness, anyhow, but I hesitate to discuss this assertion any further for fear of...well, being "inexplicit." Let me leave you that that...

While I believe the reader is probably fatigued by my carping observations by know, let me just call your attention to the "undatedness" (yes, another neologism, but I always like to add to English lexicon) of the world map that hangs in the second floor computer lab...

And I would also like to call attention to the fact that today's "Classical Piece of the Day",
Aaron Copland's Outdoor Overture
(Are you,in the words of Dennis, "being proactive" and taking time to hear these pieces?...")

Good Day,
Tyler C. Lucero