diff --git a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
index edacca3..86573d4 100755
--- a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
+++ b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ def cosine_similarities_weekly(tfidf_path, outfile, term_colname, included_subre
     conn.close()
 
     def output_exists(week):
-        outfile = Path(outdir) / str(week) / str(week)
-        return outfile.exists()
+        output = Path(outfile) / str(week) / str(week)
+        return output.exists()
 
     if not overwrite:
         print("not overwriting")