Hi ZiggityZack. You are only two weeks into your journey, boy will you see changes. Believe it or not, the T&R sections are not dreads at all, they are the roadmap to your future mature dreads. They will loosen, some will fall completely out. Do not retwist, everytime you do, you will cause slight damage to the hairs and will tighten them too much that they will not dread properly. For a dread to mature, it need to loop, zig zag and shrink to become the thickness of where the hair meets the scalp. You will even look wild for a while and have the frizzies. You want this to happen, so don't try to stop it or you will set back your mature dread journey each time.
I did about 5 thin T&R sections too tight, they never loosened and are not dreading the same as the other sections, so yeah, you really want them to loosen for awesome dreads.
For drying, invest in a towel the same color as your hair, dreads love towel link and you can't get away from that, so a brown towel will leave brown lint. When you shower is finished, sit on the tub and hang your head down, plenty of water will drip off, you can even sway you head back and forth to watch the water fly off. Just pat it dry with a towel, no wrapping the head like a turban. I also use a micro fiber towel like a shamwow to suck out plenty of water to cut down on the drying time dramatically, again, just pat it and it will suck it out.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.....Peace