About this blog

Short Version: this blog is about Tyeliah Duncan's LGO experience, ghost written by her SO (significant other)

Long Version:

If you've done any research on the program - and you almost certainly have if you've ended up here - then you must know that the program is intensely time consuming. As such, Tyeliah Duncan (LGO '11) is a little bit too busy to update various readers and/or family members of her progress in the program on a regular basis. Furthermore, Ms. Duncan has gained a significant amount of management experience and has learned the fine art of delegation (thus extending the famous quote sometimes attributed to H. L. Mencken or George Bernard Shaw - "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" - by adding "those who want to make money, delegate" - personally, I prefer the woody allen extension - "those who can't teach, teach PE"). Therefore she has searched near and far for someone to whom she can delegate the fine art of LGO scribe.

She didn't really have to search very far at all. It just so happens that Ms. Duncan has a significant other with a fair amount of time on his hands (what with being grossly underemployed at the moment) and a keen way with words that he wishes to practice on a semi-regular basis in the service of his dearly beloved (I'm reading 19th century english literature so if I happen to stumble into aristocratic tones for a moment, please forgive me - it will only be a temporary phase). Perhaps you've heard of him - he's the noted author of unfinished and unpublished possible classics such as "The Post-Modern Prometheus", "Charlie 'Midas' Brown", or the self-referential "The Writer Becomes a Writer by Writing" (a working title)... Perhaps not.

Nonetheless, it is to this amanuensis that the 'manual' labor or writing goes. Me thinks a brief biography of both principles is in order.

Ms. Tyeliah Elaine Duncan:

Born in OKC, OK; attended 13 different schools in 12 years (not entirely accurate, but close); went to community college in OKC; transferred to Michigan (University Of) and graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering; served in Peace Corps Burkina Faso as a middle school Math and Biology teacher (met aforementioned significant other in said poor country); worked as in english teacher at Chengdu University of Information Technology in Chengdu, China; worked as Systems Engineer and then Manager Project and Planning Second Class (I'm just making up job titles) with Northrop Grumman in support of the FAA in Washington, DC; currently is attending MIT's LGO program from which she will receive an SM (in Civil Engineering) and an ABM (I'm not sure if MIT gives the MBA degree backwards but I think they do it for everything else) in two years time; has been described as witty (mostly by herself - she finds it funniest when only she gets the joke), extremely intelligent (by yours truly and many others), a true superstar (by her last boss), an excellent manager, a committed feminist ... what else ... oh yes, ambitious, driven, sassy, and occasionally ornery - many have also noted that she has an extremely intelligent, charming and handsome significant other.

Significant Other (henceforth referred to as Peaceful Tiger Mountain ... not really - henceforth referred to as SO):

born in New Orleans where he was schooled in the ancient Dahomian art of Houdou which he infuses into his language to bewitch unsuspecting readers; spent four years in solitude in the Rub'al Khali (the desolate Arabian desert known as the empty quarter) learning the secrets of the pizza sheik (although he took frequent breaks from the solitude to play with his GI Joes); ventured to the American midwest where he joined the viscious St. Louis gang known as the 'Cardinal Nation' and became a master of the ninja weapon the Coltrane Katana (otherwise known as the Saxophone) with which he can deliver sonic death; returned to New Orleans to advance his houdou skills to the next level by immersing himself in the study of Politic Science at the Sacred Temple of the Green Wave; voyaged abroad to the resort country of Burkina Faso (where he met Ms. Duncan) for a year and a of half blissful relaxation; traveled to far east (nothing exotic discovered there); came to houdou capital (washington, DC) where he studied the politics and economics of primitive magic*; infiltrated the confines of the rival gang 'Red Sox Nation.'; the SOs personality need not be described as it will be revealed in his frequently ridiculous writings.

In all seriousness, the SO (me) is pursuing work in the renewable energy industry and will soon have his own website up focusing on news in the solar energy industry.

*From Clarke's 3rd law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"