Alvesson (2003a) encourages us to engage in close-up studies of the well known and familiar territories of our own organizations in academia, as academic organizations are less frequently made the subject/object of research. But as the title of his article suggests the endeavour to engage in close-up studies involves a struggle with the somewhat contradictory practices of closeness and closure. In this paper, inspired by the reflexive turn in social science in general, we suggest a methodological approach to deal with the struggles of closeness and closure but even more importantly to re-search (re-interpret, re-present and re-embody) the familiarity of lived everyday professional life. The methodology we advocate builds on a combination of inner and outer conversations conceptualised as introspection and dialogue. A trigger point and also a result of these conversations are experiences of bodily unease or the unpleasantly dirty experience of non consenting body over mind Inter-Acts in the academic context. Our specific concern is the process of learning how to become a researcher and we focus on what could be conceptualized as and the consequences of the people processing devices during socialization within a specific academic organization during the years leading up to dissertation but also more broadly into academia in general and the role of the researcher (van Maanen & Schein 1979, Berger & Luckmann 1966). We suggest that body over mind discourse in the academic workplace contributes to the disembodied researcher – whereas the result of the methodology suggested in this paper could contribute to explore its consequences and possibly encourage re-embodiment. Instead of treating body as a problematic feature of research we suggest that at-home ethnography involving strong auto-ethnographic dimensions can place bodily experiences of unease at the centre of attention, where the body serves as a tool informing the reflexive research process.