Allison T. Parrish @aparrish@oulipo.social

magician, wrong way up. what i'm afraid of wrt my rising sign (lion): a charlatan. showmanship without anything to back it up, tricks, an illusion of virtuosity. or... cuspy virtuosity, about to unfold?

8 of cups. not so much walking away from this pathos, but stuck to it, holding fast, for good or ill...

knight of swords (upright). taking action on thoughts and plans. conviction (without foundation?)

i'm having drinks with @ranjit and @v21 right now which i think is a good opportunity to post on this account again! hi all

i don't know why but it was important to find out today that h.d.'s sign is also my sign (virgo)

oh god it's still going on. I don't know anything, I am a just-born baby 😎

trying not to allow my just having found out about an important fascinating thing I hadn't known about until just now, a topic in all ways applying to what I'm working on, distract from my actual writing task 😤

two of wands wrong way up. a distorting mirror. this painting sums it up https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Look_At_Us_-_We%27re_Beautiful_2.jpg

this is my first go at writing a thing for an actual scholarly symposium/journal. what I want to say is straightforward but I'm always falling into distraction (what citation format is right for X? oooh, I should follow this chain of thought from a scholar I just found out about, I should look at that big social bird forum now, &c &c). plus fluid wordsmithy is just not among my natural gifts, sadly. I am struggling 😑

an oulipo.social variant that allows only words that don't contain any /i/ sounds

satan, wrong way up, so why didn't I find a way out of this or that thing that I'm caught in? can any of you clarify what it is, in particular, that I'm caught in

still probably my fav song from that band though

I was going to oulipify that song about flown birds and wood from a particular scandinavian nation but, upon study concluding that this song is actually about a man committing arson owing to a woman's choosing not to put out, opt not to

howdy y'all how is it going on this wondrous thursday? I am advocating mastodon in a workshop right now.

whoops forgot to log into this mastodon for a bit. did all of you also stop logging on :(

i had to ask a librarian if as NYU faculty i can borrow books from our library. ("obviously!" you say, but not totally: adjuncts can't and i was just an adjunct for many moons) anyway this librarian said "yup!" and now i am on my way to borrow math and linguistics and writing books to add to my bibliography 😎 📚

just found out that "hiking with my cat" is a common sort of vlog upload, pardon as I vanish into a blissful land of granola kitty troops

matriarch and III of wands. at our discussion's start today I said "I don't actually know what I want to talk about"—my psychologist put forward "dating?" and okay it was a fruitful topic