mx. sparks (lipogrammatic) @mxsparks@oulipo.social

an amazing thing about committing to stay with your gal-pal through many autumns:

you start accumulating skills at playing your pal's body as if it's a fancy violin, and it turns out that your pal is a virtuoso at playing yours ...

😊 😊 😊

Although you should account for lying on your back in a tooth doctor's chair as you plan your outfit that morning -- or you'll just worry about your tuck for an hour and not chill out at all. 😬 Good thing my tooth doc is so cool.

I find six-monthly tooth-scrubbings ... oddly kind of calming, actually? Your job is just to say "ahhh," sit back, and chill out for a bit.

I try to shut my oculi and focus on un-contracting my body as much as I can, and it's almost as good as taking a quick nap.

No, my nym's ouliporous quality did not play any part in my choosing to switch to it, but I can't say it's not a plus :-)

Q: "Hi ${old nym}, how did your months out of class suit you?"
A: "Oh, I had a fantastic ti--"
My mind: (hold on, did you just call-- oh right, our last chat was prior to-- ahahahahaha)
A: "my industry job was a lot of fun, btw I'm going by Clara now"
Q: "Cool cool, what kind of tasks did you work on?"
[a good talk follows]

Radio Cranium
#TurnABandOulipo

Old maymays, ouliporously:

I'm a Liz ban --
a lass bab --
a loss by --
"It's okay, no rush ..."
GIRLS.

Thoughts from this morning's standing bath: I wish I could pull off a "tomboy/soft butch" kind of look without worrying about coming across as "cis dad still trying to look young and cool."

... What if I *can* pull off such a look? :D

Now that I'm thinking about pills, I should talk to my brain doctor this fortnight too. I can usually maintain a good functioning status on this dosing plan, but I want to adjust my low points up to just a tiny bit ... not as low ... as right now.

Good morning (if it's still morning for you)! Going forward, I'll try not to stay away from this spot for almost four months again. Sorry about that.

My ratio of good brain days to bad is still improving. Not only that, I'm finally starting girl pills soon (notwithstanding which, I'm still (probably (mostly)) not "A Girl") -- in a fortnight at most, but just four days if I'm lucky! That thought is as joyous as it is scary...

How is your day looking so far?

Boo!

Naturally, it was both.