It has been a busy month, and I am ready to jump into the next phase of my development as a scholar. I have begun the process of looking at current research in my field, to understand the arguments, the kinds of papers, the journals, pertinent to my field of study. I do not have a bullet proof method for processing the texts, although I keep working on developing such a thing. I was using email as a searchable text system, posting my comments on readings with the pdf attached. The problem with this system is that I have no way of compiling searches by keyword, other than as a group of emails. I’m concerned that this is going to become unwieldy as the volume of data increases. Clearly my method from my MA thesis was inadequate. I now have these milk crates of pdf files that I don’t know what to do with. Apparently I have a cognitive quirk that makes it so I can find anything if it is in a pile, I have a very difficult time managing files in file drawers. There is this sensation of things disappearing, similar to the navigational dyslexia I experience finding my way through the world.
