Who Is J.S. Pailly?

~ J.S. Pailly

Hello, friends!  Every once in a while, I think it’s good for bloggers to reintroduce themselves.  My name is James Serain Pailly, and I love space.

I love other things too, of course.  I love good food.  I love a glass of fine wine.  I love taking naps in the middle of the afternoon.  I collect books.  I have a few really nice leather-bound classics that I’m really, really proud of.  I also collect Lego, and I have several Lego sets on display in my house that I’m really proud of, too.  I love making art.  I love… well, sometimes I have mixed feelings about writing, but when the  muse is with me, I do love to write.  Oh, and I have a few close friends whom I love very much (you know who you are!).

But on this blog, I mainly talk about my love for space.  And on that note, dear reader, there is something I want to make sure you understand about me: I am not a scientist.  I’m not an aerospace engineer.  I don’t have any professional experience with space exploration whatsoever.  I’m just really enthusiastic about this stuff.  I read a lot about space, and I’m always trying to learn more.  Thanks to all that learning and all that reading, plus all that enthusiasm, the way I talk about space sometimes makes people think I must work at NASA, or something.  So I just want to clarify, for anybody who might get the wrong impression, that I don’t work at NASA.  I don’t work in the aerospace industry.  I’m just a big, big fan of space.

I also want to clarify (because this is another assumption people sometimes make about me) that my obsession with space and space exploration does not extend to U.F.O.s.  I used to be more openminded about U.F.O.s (or U.A.P.s, which seems to be the more politically correct term for them these days), but time and again the evidence never seems to hold up to scrutiny.  So no, I don’t take U.F.O.s seriously.  Or alien abductions, or conspiracy theories about reptilians running the government, or anything else along those lines.

I’m also not into astrology, though I do enjoy the astrology aesthetic.

One last thing I feel I should tell you: I’m in the LGBT community.  To be more specific, I’m a genderqueer bisexual.  That’s not super relevant to anything we talk about on this blog, but I also don’t want anyone to think I have something to hide or that I’m ashamed of who I am.  In other words: I’m here, I’m queer, now let’s get back to talking about space.

I haven’t been blogging much these last few months.  That’s due primarily to work-related stress.  You may be wondering: “So James, if you don’t work at NASA, where do you work?”  Well, dear reader, I work in news.  News is a depressing line of work, even at the best of times, and these are not exactly the best of times.  All the stress and all the anxiety of my day job has kept me from blogging, which is a real shame because blogging about space (i.e. blogging about a thing I love!) is one of the best ways I know to manage my stress and reduce my anxiety.

But I’m hoping to turn that around.  Today, I’m recommitting myself to writing this blog and posting on a more regular basis, because despite everything, I still love space.  If you also love space, then I hope you’ll join me on this adventure.

Thanks for reading, friends.  I’ll talk to you again soon.

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14 thoughts on “Who Is J.S. Pailly?”

  1. James, what a great idea to do an introductory post. While it’s something I’ve seen people do when they’re in sales/marketing, I’ve not come across it on a personal blog, and I’d love to see more of it. Indeed, I am inspired to come up with one myself.

    Really interesting to find out that you work in news, although you have my heartfelt sympathy, as that must be one hell of a tough gig currently. Hope to see lots of you here, writing about what you love.

    I’ve also committing to do more writing of and about fiction – it’s all been rather than too much miss than hit of late.

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    1. I vaguely remember someone used to do a reintroduction post every year for New Years. Anyway, the concept has been sitting in my head for a while now, and this seemed like a good moment for me to do a reintroduction. I look forward to reading your version!

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  2. I’m with you on work getting in the way of blogging, although I’m lucky that mine doesn’t remind me of the political situation all day (well, mostly). Looking forward to seeing more posts!

    On mixed feelings about writing, Eric Schwitzgebel did a recent post which gave me something to think about, particularly the “Cherish and Protect Your Joy in Writing” part.

    https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/writing-short-fiction-suggestions-for.html

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    1. I enjoyed that. Thanks. I kind of lost the joy of writing for a while there. Multiple reasons for that, but I do feel it coming back to me now. Schwitzgebel’s post is a good reminder of some things I already knew, but that I had forgotten.

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      1. I realized when reading it that I’d been in instrumentalist mode for a long time. I think my interest in early sci-fi (where the writing is atrocious) was an attempt at a reset. I need to do some throwaway writing for a while.

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