What I reallly do.

sweet huh? This is basic fiber tracking of some dude's brain from the left side. This picture really has little research application, but everyone knows that pretty pictures sell grants. Seriously. So, I plan on taking pictures of the workplace and posting them so you can see what I actually do. Maybe I'll do that Friday when no one's here (except for me and a couple other RAs). I have a very intense work day here. I show up, I put my bike up, my coats on the rack, and my bookbag underneath my desk. After taking out and arranging my coffee and nalgene, I proceed to check e-mail on my three active accounts, check my google calendar, read 'words of the day' from three different dictionary sites, and finally get up, say I'm tired, and walk around to stave off exhaustion. After that first hour, I generally end up opening up Slicer, our locally developed freeware brain imaging tool, and processing things for a while. After a while, I'll remember something I was supposed to do or someone will tell me to do something involving the database. This means turning on the Windows computer, walking around and staving off exhaustion while it boots up, opening up all the same applications on it and rechecking my e-mail, and then opening up Access and Excel to modify or check the database. Most of the actual work is with Access or Slicer, and I don't feel like going into detail about slicer now, but if I ever get invested heavily in one project, I'll probably describe it here (with pictures). Anyway, that's enough writing for today. I'll let you know the enthralling details of the rest of my work day in a later post.