Comprehensive Exams: BDS 7-24-13

Planning Writing: Today I will do some work at re-gathering sources that will be important for the first push of my next phase of the comps. I am going to stick with the 'TNS' portion of my list, so I'm going to immerse myself in those conversations so as to have a strong grasp about how my work will contribute to the TN conversation as well as the RC conversation.

Comfort Check: Stretched. Flexed muscles. straightened legs and feet. Separated teeth. Lowered tongue. Re-focused on the task at hand after terrible paper-ripping distraction.

Comfort Check 2: Paused, checked for comfort. Stretched. Un curled legs. Focused eyes out the window at a near and distant focal point.

I worked during this time to begin to make connections between Latour's ANT and the methods that TN scholars employ (particularly Dingo's network methodology as she traces TN concepts across times.