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jenett[updated January 3, 2017]
My profile has the general background, but herein is a list of links to things I've written that might give you a sense of me. Tagging is extremely irregular on my journal, and likely to continue to be.
Mostly locked posts, for a variety of reasons. I'm generally happy to add most people to my locks these days. (I keep a very small number of more tightly focused filters for trusted-in-person friend type conversations.)
I'm a librarian. I geek stuff by nature. Most of what I write is various bits about daily life, books, music, thinking, doing stuff, chronic illness coping, and miscellaneous other topics. I tend not to write about politics and current events.
Lots of people who keep reading me say they really like my long thinky posts, even if they're otherwise not particularly interested in the subject matter: I am most likely to do them about
And as an example of a non-public one, this one, about my father and the power of theatre and memory and the living power of words made real is one I'm still very proud of.
Also, people like when I go librarian smash at bad research. Tagged for your convenience, but I think they're all locked posts.
Both crossposts automatically access-lock, and both have a little header telling you where it came from. The first auto-locks so people can make comments in a non-public space (and sometimes there get to be great points made.)
The second is because I don't make the link between this username and my legal name obvious (because lo, I work in a field where casual Googling of job applicants is pretty common: I'm inclined to be quietly open about my religion, but it's also not a thing I want people to randomly stumble across.)
I mention in my profile that I was one of the player-authors of Alternity, an alternate universe Harry Potter project that ran from 2007 to 2015 (yes, that's seven years). You can find out more about it (including PDFs of all of the entries) on the Alternity website. I was also data goddess for the project, and you can find a link to our 7000+ page wiki there, too. While the project is over, I'm still very proud of the whole thing and my part in it, and there is some interesting commentary in my Alternity tag (locked posts, mostly) for the curious.
Generally, if it's me doing personal stuff, I'm Jenett. Or JenettSilver, if Jenett was taken. I also write under that name for Pagan stuff.
I am nominally on Facebook under my legal name, but avoid all directly Pagan (or otherwise personal stuff, like specific health details) stuff in public there which in practice means I use it for access to our work page (occasionally) and otherwise never check it.
I run a site called Seeking, which has introductory material about religious witchcraft a lot of people find interesting (and is also a good example of my geekiness). I started it in 2011, it now has over 150 pages, and I did a major layout and organizational revamp in December 2016.
I am of the type "I consider my journal like my living room." I post stuff that's useful for me, framed as is useful for me, which may not be useful to you.
I have some idiosyncrasies about spelling. I mostly use British - I am born and raised in the US, but my father was English, and my mother was raised in the UK. I often use US punctuation. Yes, this is weird.
In my own journal, I do not edit ruthlessly for typos or word swaps (because brain fog is a thing, and there are days where if I felt I had to do that, I wouldn't write things down, and that makes my journal useless for documentation for me.) If you have problems understanding a sentence, I am glad to try again.
If suggesting something, please understand that I probably have reasons for what I say even if I haven't spelled all of them out. Like most people, what I write about online is the tip of the iceberg of my experience, knowledge, or understanding, and of course, online, it's often easy for a mischosen word to cause confusion. (In particular, I have multiple chronic health issues, and thus get to play the game of 'which option doesn't make these three things worse' fairly often, or the variant 'that seems like a perfectly logical solution, but it doesn't actually work for me for weird reasons I don't want to go into right now.')
I try to be clear if I'm asking for problemsolving or not, but if you're not sure, advice is usually fine, but you may get a "Yeah, sorry, that won't work for me." without details in response, depending on my degree of energy.
My profile has the general background, but herein is a list of links to things I've written that might give you a sense of me. Tagging is extremely irregular on my journal, and likely to continue to be.
What you'll see here is:
Mostly locked posts, for a variety of reasons. I'm generally happy to add most people to my locks these days. (I keep a very small number of more tightly focused filters for trusted-in-person friend type conversations.)
Various posts from me about daily life:
I'm a librarian. I geek stuff by nature. Most of what I write is various bits about daily life, books, music, thinking, doing stuff, chronic illness coping, and miscellaneous other topics. I tend not to write about politics and current events.
Lots of people who keep reading me say they really like my long thinky posts, even if they're otherwise not particularly interested in the subject matter: I am most likely to do them about
- sorting out the inside of my head.
- religious stuff (some basics, but more how to learn, teach, share, and explore it better)
- music (with which I have a complex relationship)
- things that bug my librarian brain. Bad history and research. Online interactions, especially around privacy and communication.
Samples of public long-and-thinky posts:
- An exposition on a mix CD I made for a particular trip which is really about bits of my musical history.
- General info about how I handle access and subscription on this journal.
- A post about the movie Agora, about Hypatia of Alexandria
- A deconstruction of the history in a Bones episode that involved a purported victim of the Salem Witch Trials.
- My somewhat dated advice to people considering library school
And as an example of a non-public one, this one, about my father and the power of theatre and memory and the living power of words made real is one I'm still very proud of.
Also, people like when I go librarian smash at bad research. Tagged for your convenience, but I think they're all locked posts.
Crossposts from two blogs:
Both crossposts automatically access-lock, and both have a little header telling you where it came from. The first auto-locks so people can make comments in a non-public space (and sometimes there get to be great points made.)
- My public religious blog (http://gleewood.org/threshold)
- My public professional blog (which I do not link to this username in public spaces)
The second is because I don't make the link between this username and my legal name obvious (because lo, I work in a field where casual Googling of job applicants is pretty common: I'm inclined to be quietly open about my religion, but it's also not a thing I want people to randomly stumble across.)
Past projects
I mention in my profile that I was one of the player-authors of Alternity, an alternate universe Harry Potter project that ran from 2007 to 2015 (yes, that's seven years). You can find out more about it (including PDFs of all of the entries) on the Alternity website. I was also data goddess for the project, and you can find a link to our 7000+ page wiki there, too. While the project is over, I'm still very proud of the whole thing and my part in it, and there is some interesting commentary in my Alternity tag (locked posts, mostly) for the curious.
Other places I am online
Generally, if it's me doing personal stuff, I'm Jenett. Or JenettSilver, if Jenett was taken. I also write under that name for Pagan stuff.
I am nominally on Facebook under my legal name, but avoid all directly Pagan (or otherwise personal stuff, like specific health details) stuff in public there which in practice means I use it for access to our work page (occasionally) and otherwise never check it.
I run a site called Seeking, which has introductory material about religious witchcraft a lot of people find interesting (and is also a good example of my geekiness). I started it in 2011, it now has over 150 pages, and I did a major layout and organizational revamp in December 2016.
Other useful stuff about this journal
I am of the type "I consider my journal like my living room." I post stuff that's useful for me, framed as is useful for me, which may not be useful to you.
I have some idiosyncrasies about spelling. I mostly use British - I am born and raised in the US, but my father was English, and my mother was raised in the UK. I often use US punctuation. Yes, this is weird.
In my own journal, I do not edit ruthlessly for typos or word swaps (because brain fog is a thing, and there are days where if I felt I had to do that, I wouldn't write things down, and that makes my journal useless for documentation for me.) If you have problems understanding a sentence, I am glad to try again.
If suggesting something, please understand that I probably have reasons for what I say even if I haven't spelled all of them out. Like most people, what I write about online is the tip of the iceberg of my experience, knowledge, or understanding, and of course, online, it's often easy for a mischosen word to cause confusion. (In particular, I have multiple chronic health issues, and thus get to play the game of 'which option doesn't make these three things worse' fairly often, or the variant 'that seems like a perfectly logical solution, but it doesn't actually work for me for weird reasons I don't want to go into right now.')
I try to be clear if I'm asking for problemsolving or not, but if you're not sure, advice is usually fine, but you may get a "Yeah, sorry, that won't work for me." without details in response, depending on my degree of energy.
Other useful info
- I cut-tag anything over 4-5 paragraphs.
- I am not reliable about tagging most things, sorry.
- For complex posts I do my best to use headers and formatting that will help screenreaders.
- I rarely post photos (I'm more likely to link to something that has them) but if I do there will be alt-text and usually descriptive details in the surrounding text.
- For comments, I reserve the right to say "Hey, don't do that." and to kick people out of my virtual living room.
- I do love knowing how you found me, or what you found interesting. Questions are a good way to get me to expound about something if I've got the time and energy. It's very hard to offend me by asking a sincere question - at worst, you won't get an answer, but that's it.
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Date: 2008-05-12 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-03 04:21 pm (UTC)Jenett of the future! Tell us of February 15th, 2015!
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Date: 2008-09-16 10:23 pm (UTC)[[waves hi from making light]]
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-22 07:22 pm (UTC)The harp is, in fact, my Stoney End Lorraine (29 strings, mine is walnut). Her name's Tale, and while I bought her in Maine, Stoney End is actually based an hour from where I now live. (I'm in Minneapolis, they're in Red Wing) which is nicely handy sometimes.
Have added you to likely filters, but please to be telling me if you want adjusting.
The magpie thing is due to my dear friend,
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Date: 2008-12-24 09:58 am (UTC)If you don't mind I'd like to add you! :)
Thanks for your time!
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Date: 2008-12-25 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:18 am (UTC)I found you through Sunflower's LJ. I love reading your posts on TC so I added you as a friend. Hope that's alright! :)
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Date: 2009-07-17 10:52 am (UTC)ETA: a little flickr searching tells me we did indeed meet in 2008
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 11:50 am (UTC)Feel free to ask questions about anything that's confusing to you or where I'm not explaining the antecedent or something. You might find http://gleewood.org/threshold/about/background/ (especially parts 2 and 3) helpful in some of the stuff I'm inclined to talk about regularly, but it's probably not essential :)
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Date: 2010-04-05 07:08 am (UTC)ETA--I don't usually use so many parentheticals. ::facepalm::
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Date: 2010-04-05 11:18 am (UTC)Feel free to look around, ask questions, and all that good stuff.
http://jenett.dreamwidth.org/1266867.html?#cutid1 is a possibly handy intro, if you hadn't found it yet, or at least gives some places to start :)
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Date: 2010-04-07 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 11:28 pm (UTC)your coments on geekfeminism about the lack of a network among techie librarians
Date: 2010-04-25 09:10 am (UTC)I just read two comments on geekfeminism.org about how you were lacking a network of techie librarians. I assume, you live and work in the US? There is code4lib, who have both a community website, a journal and an annual conference. There are also some companies being vendors of FOSS software for librarians. Like Koha, Evergreen, Drupal, Wordpress, Plone - and thats just what I heard of. I live in Norway right now, and have worked for libraries about 18 months.
In that time, I could also organize a conference about the usefulness of FOSS software in libraries in Norway together with a geeky librarian from a library nearby. You probably have. But, if not, you should go explore what there is of geeky, nerdy, techie librarian websites, blogs, twitter accounts and such. You could organize a "23things about web 2.0" class for your co-workers, and enable them to talk to you about at least certain aspects of the web and computing.
I wish you the best of luck finding colleagues that you share a lot of common grounds with!
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Date: 2010-05-31 02:50 am (UTC)Meg
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Date: 2011-07-13 08:28 pm (UTC)Please feel free to ask questions, if you've got them: I'm a little scattered at the moment due to packing for the move and arranging other details, but other than that, I like questions a lot. (In other words, if I don't answer, feel free to nudge me.)
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Date: 2013-06-10 04:37 am (UTC)About me: I'm about to start working on my Masters in Psychology, with a goal to become an autism researcher. I play the celtic harp (not well, but happily) and spend much of my time working on creative writing, either for my own projects or as a part of a text-based RPG I play. I come from a family of librarians, and live on books like air. Thinky posts are my favorite kind, which is what intrigued me as I read what you had posted.
Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and to tell me if you'd rather I not read here. Be well :)
--Blue
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Date: 2013-08-28 02:28 pm (UTC)(I am amiable, but a bit scattered this week, because Work.)
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Date: 2013-11-27 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-27 04:22 pm (UTC)(Not this week for sure: I've got some other stuff I'm working on that'd make it harder to juggle.) But the past couple of weeks, I kept remembering it was actually Wednesday at about 5pm.
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Date: 2014-04-27 04:26 am (UTC)I'm an introverted professional geek (half of my work is in the manga industry ^^) with an eternally out-of-control list of things to read and watch and post about...and I'm never sure what else to say when introducing myself to people, so I'll leave it at that. *g*
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Date: 2014-04-27 04:29 am (UTC)(I have this sudden "I have not been terribly interesting recently" sort of feeling, but that tends to come and go in fits and starts.)
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Date: 2010-01-19 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm a BTW initiate who just started a new coven in Georgia, and am slowly winding my way through the process with the (thankfully ample) assistance of my Lady and initiator. :)
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Date: 2010-01-19 05:15 pm (UTC)(This puts me in a rather weird position, but I cope.)
My public blog has three posts on background of how I use definitions, etc. written a while back for people not very familiar with Paganism: the first two parts are probably old hat to you, but the last one might be useful for general background on how I do things.
http://gleewood.org/threshold/about/background/ has links to all three.
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