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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Update: the ad appears to be for Coffee Mate? I iz ded.

JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sitting in the doctor's office, I'm hearing a commercial on the TV that uses the refrain from Britney Spears' "Gimme More"... in the most banal, boring cover ever.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why don't my students understand what "double spaced" means? Especially when I explained it in my syllabus? (Oh, that's the problem, they didn't read the syllabus.)

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Tfw your cat jumps up on your clean sheets and she has diarrhea all over her butt and tail. 🤮

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So amused by undergraduates doing 90s/ grunge clothing...they always do it wrong.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of my students said "Great lecture" as he left the classroom today. I've become so cynical, I assume he was joking. But I don't know. Maybe it was good after all...

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've spent the whole day working on the @atlreview.bsky.social website trying to recover from the hack that k!lled it. I don't know what to do about the images, but links are working now...

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It is the weekend before school starts up, and I am in bed, depressed and dreading it...

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Resodding front yard: $3100. Trimming back trees so that new sod will get sunlight: $2200. Flipping off the HOA fascists: Priceless

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Notes for poets: Callus: a small knot or bump on your skin Callous: hard-hearted Please stop mixing these up!

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I just looked at my Submittable queue, and I have 9 submissions that have been marked "received" or "in progress" since 2021. Should I go ahead and withdraw them (even though several charged a fee), or should I let them linger?

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've lost my favorite comb and now my hair is a rat's nest.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Trying to recreate the Atlanta Review website from scratch is making me lose the will to live. (The Way Back Machine is helpful, but it's still slow going.)

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have graded all the travel memoirs my students wrote this summer and which I hoped would be quite entertaining Forgive me a teacher's hope springs eternal at least I'm done

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tell me again why I assigned 12 page final papers for my 22 students (most of whom went over the limit, some by as many as 8 pages)?

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Jet lag is killing me. Its 11 pm Edinburgh time, and I could cheerfully go to bed now, and it's only 6 in ATL.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have a student who wrote 20 pages on a 12 page assignment. What to do? Read it, or quit at page 12? (Opinions welcome.)

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I sent off an application to a writers residency yesterday. Crossing my fingers!

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I wonder if Sherlock Holmes knows where my motivation to pack has disappeared to?

Statue of Sherlock Holmes honoring Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I know racists gonna racist, but I really don't understand why people are losing their minds over a diverse cast. All of the main characters were white--as per usual. Hollywood is always the same. #theodyssey

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Spending the day grading the papers I have and waiting for all the outstanding (i.e. overdue) papers to come in. (Come on, slow pokes, I want to get this work out of my life!)

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Amazing opportunity for the cross-pollination of science and poetry…

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The universe saw fit to give me flowers today.

A small bouquet of red roses, red carnations, and pink filler flowers in a pint glass.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I did go to the Royal Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and it was lovely.

Close up of three yellow daisies in the sunshine.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trying to decide if I should go to the botanical gardens or stay home. I'm 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I went to The Port of leith Distillery today. We had 5 drams in the tasting room, then one more (a white port) upstairs in the giftshop. I'm glad I ate lunch BEFORE I went there!

5 glasses in a whisky, port, and sherry flight. The other 2 glasses contain unbarreled spirit.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

On a scale from 1-10 about how much I don't want to go to work this morning, I'd pick 46.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just saw a heartbreak at the Glasgow bus station...a fledgling seagull that must have fallen out of its nest. It's just crying and crying. I gave it bread but I don't think it understood how to eat it. Puir wee thing. 😢

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Why do Scottish toilets only have one good flush in them?

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Two rejections today (one for the ms), and one yesterday. Honestly, I am beginning to seriously consider that my best poems are behind me. (Pity party of one, you're table is ready.)

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I really need to shave my legs, but there is a colony of spiders who have taken up residence in the bathtub, and I don't want to disturb them.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Jenny and I share a birthday today! Tuna for her and cake for me! 🍦🎂🧁🥧🍰

A closeup of the face of an elderly gray kitty

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I blew a tire this morning. Thanks Georgia roads!

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The Atlanta Review @atlreview.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's that time of year! Atlanta Review seeks your poetry for our annual Poetry International Contest! See guidelines and submit at atlantareview.submittable.com.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Two rejections back-to-back today. At least one "got to the final round." That's something. ONWARD!!

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just checked my retirement for the first time in a while, and I've lost $20K since last July. Thanks, Dump.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I just had to charge 54 cents because there was no other way to pay that "outstanding" amount to my doctor. I mean REALLY???

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Nothing like the sound of a cat horking on your bed to jolt you out of a dead sleep.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It is so passive aggressive how our next door neighbor blows the leaves from our trees that fell in his yard back into our yard.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Why am I the only PhD type who forgets what heuristics and gestalt mean?

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I know the world is going to perdition right now, but some of you may have aging parents, and this article seemed useful (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

nytimes.com

5 Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Found a dead moth in my salad. I am scarred for life. 🤮

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm watching my neighbor decimate a quince bush which is technically on his property but is in front of my eyeline out my front window and my heart is breaking.

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JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My writer's block is so bad, I can't think of anything cool enough to share.

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