Jack @frustratedantiquarian@scholar.social

Finally taking steps toward volunteering with LibriVox.org. Hopefully I can do for students who have difficulty reading classics what so many readers have done for me.

Really proud of my friend finally getting into a good medieval studies PhD program

I have yet to see a Wordle that is a Loss edit, and honestly I admire all of your restraint.

Lousy Smarch weather

My submission for our last fiction workshop meeting was well received by prof and students. Feeling pretty good right now.

Sometimes I sigh at the dizzying complexities of the observable world, and then I remember that this video exists https://youtu.be/cVGAxMo-kiw?list=TLPQMDMxMjIwMjFpBGgUOH2XnQ

The prof for my fiction workshop is encouraging us to approach our peers' submissions as readers, not as scholars. After taking all of undergrad and then some training myself to approach art like a scholar, it feels so counterintuitive stepping back (regressing, as it feels) to a position of "do I like reading this? Why or why not?"

40 pages into #Wagnerism by Alex Ross and loving it. It's a wonderful discussion of the best and worst aspects of the cultural, philosophical, and political legacy of Richard Wagner's work with some genuinely hilarious moments, especially in regard to his mentorship of the young Friedrich Nietzsche.