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

Think of a world, a world akin to your own. But a world in which your writing’s most-common glyph is missing. Not just taboo, mind you — in this domain, it simply has no glyph-hood at all.

Nightmarish, you say? No. Only ... [dramatic zoom] ... a Twilight Oulipo.

[scary music] [cut to logo]

I might publish my first two works as Clara in 2019, just as I finish my M.S. (which I think I ought to start calling my Ms. ...)

Work #1 is forthcoming in a random no-impact journal of Jungian psychology, lambasting it for publishing transphobic propaganda, but work #2 would actually fall within my major — my fast-math-circuits prof this fall said my classwork was so good that I should submit it to a conf!

gosh I am so gay for DrSparks

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.