A Wandering Eyre

• Packing up for a weekend at the family lakehouse #

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• @grasshopperlibr love danskos #
• trying to covince the wee one that it is indeed naptime #

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• hilarious Live Journal librarians’ group. language of title NSFW http://tinyurl.com/ywvro3 #
• @jenica26 do you need some anger management? or maybe just a Hammer of Data Retrieving? #
• doing some bloggy stuff over at Wandering Eyre tho I hear the laundry beeping. dumb laundry #
• @jenica26 so true, so true. tho in truthiness, some more closeted than others #
• @griffey thx realized that leaving computer on all day helps me snag snatches of internet time, plus wee one is sleeping for real today #
• ok, must fold laundry #

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Don’t get too excited if this has turned up in your aggregator. Jane is not back in full time business. I am going to turn on Twitter updates to this blog because I have been able to write a couple sentences here and there some days.

I expect most people are drowning in post Annual information floods at this time, so I do not want to bounce back into your lives until you have all had a chance to recover. Besides, I am still recovering from the arrival of the Wee Bairn. Recovering in the sense that I always will be.

So, Twitter updates back on and movement around this joint is imminent. Next week.

Jane, can’t believe she took a break for this long

• ah, thinking of all the fun everyone had at blog salon. currently holding a sleeping boy and typing one handed #
• the boy marathon eats ans now refuses to sleep. Mmm, maybe no shower 4 me today. at least I brushed my teeth #
• @awd now that makes me really miss you guys! mmm free beer #
• running to shower then finding snax. yay for wee one napping at last #

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If you want to know what is going on with the Rochester clan, and let me warn you we do nothing the easy way, please go read Defying Genetics.

If you are waiting for snarky Jane to return, please continue your holding pattern.

–Jane, getting used to the routine of the NICU

(I said Friday for big news, but I suppose I am unable to read calendars. This is the big announcement. Enjoy.)

People fear and worry about the unknown.

The PTB, Powers That Be, in most organizations perpetuate fear by having closed meetings, by distributing meeting minutes that have no substance, hiding or disguising the way decisions are made, and not explaining any of the above to the people whom these decisions invariably effect the most. These practices create worry, fear, and gossip mongering because the lower levels of the organizations are kept, unintentionally or deliberately, in the dark. Who does this system protect? Certainly not the people on the bottom.

I believe that information is power and it is time we give it back to the people.

In an effort of experimentation, truth, and transparency, the leadership of BIGWIG will henceforth be practicing Radical Transparency. We want to model how radical transparency can change the work of an ALA group. We want to show that transparency breeds loyalty and productivity. It does not produce chaos. We discussed this at ALA Midwinter with the group and everyone was in favor of moving forward.

How will this work?

BIGWIG has registered its own domain called Your BIGWIG. There you will find different areas for discussion, work, and projects. We will strive to publicly discuss all projects, from the bottom up. The first item up for discussion and work is the Social Software Showcase planned for Annual. Well, it is not so much planned yet. We want the people to plan their own program.

We are not creating a democracy. We are creating a transparentocracy. The chairs of BIGWIG will still have final decision powers and will be true leaders of the group, but everyone will know what is going on, what is coming down the pipes, and how every decision is made. People will know because decisions will be made on the web for all the world to see or they can search the archives later).

Transparency is the future. It may be the medicine that ALA needs to regain and restore faith to their members. BIGWIG, the tiny IG unlike any other, wants to show ALA that it can be done. If you want to play, come on over, and sign-up for the fun.

–Jane, always happy to be the bearer of good things

I am convinced that the more pregnant you are, the more your brain can only focus on babies. I think, biologically, this prepares you for having to concentrate on a wee person’s survival for weeks. I mean years and years. What was I thinking?!

As a result of having what my more experienced friends call “Mommy Brain,” I have been unable to do much of anything interesting. Couple that with the fact that it takes me twice as long and about twice the energy to do even the simplest tasks and you have a Jane who has energy only for nesting.

I am pulling the life trumps blogging card now and taking my maternity leave from this site for a few weeks. I will pop in occasionally with a quip. There will be very big news here on Friday. Not baby news, but actual library related news. Keep your RSS readers ready for that because I think it is fabulous stuff. Would I lead you astray? Never!

There will be an announcement and picture here of Baby Rochester once he decides it is time to join the land of the living, breathing people. He is officially one day late today.

I expect to be back annoying you with inane commentary later in May. Until then, I will be posting ridiculous updates and pictures of the most. wonderful. baby. ever on our family blog.

–Jane, expects to be less round by late May

The First Day

Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre

Today, I have been happily married to the most wonderful man for two years. This picture was taken on the first day of our honeymoon in Edinburgh, Scotland.

–Jane, still pregnant

I have thoroughly enjoyed the small vacation of sorts that I have been taking the last month or so. I have immersed myself in the domestic needs of the Rochester household and concentrated on the business of gestating the child in my belly. I have not missed work, but I have missed being caught up on the goings on in libraryland.

I have already heard about some of the excitment from CiL including some not so Swift things and an incident involving the Brickskeller. I plan on catching up on everyone’s goings on in the next couple days. I am going to make an effort to be in this space more the next couple of weeks, until Baby Rochester makes his appearance. After that, I am taking about a month off for maternity leave and it will be very quiet around here, but a little more chatty over at Defying Genetics.

–Jane, must go get organized for the day has suddenly filled