la consolation de philologie

i cannot wait to be done with marking so that i can relax for a week and just play video games. this has been a grind and i feel like my brain cells are dying. so much genAI use and it is usually quite apparent too as these essays do not engage in-depth with the sources, cases studies or the conceptual frameworks they propose. so, ultimately there is no point using genAI; it just makes your essay read well with flowery but imprecise and non-coherent sentences and arguments. it's much better to have imperfect language and structure, yet have your analytical arguments clearly present! you will actually score higher that way (if that is your goal).

two pages from my notes now that i finished my vasari readthrough 📝

quiet week on campus

- Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

chilled in the national archives online catalogue and wrote a thousand words of the prospectus in a sun puddle this morning 📃