lauren ipsum

🏳️‍🌈 • they/them • math baby → international political economy toddler • first to die in a horror film • disabled and neurodivergent • 🚫TERFs not allowed🚫

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

guys be like "I'm a himbo" but actually be phd candidates in mathematics

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

rip a legend

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

kinda want to take an impromptu weekend trip to jakarta

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

sacrificing my weekend once again

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

still gonna try to freelance for them despite the new place but the hope is for more work-life balance and actually getting a weekend

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

i'm leaving my job :(

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

it's for a whole new world but i am still kinda sad about it — i love my colleagues and the work but the scope was just too much, it was impossible to keep doing the work of two departments

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

i can't keep doing both journalism and business development work, it is truly killing me

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

god i really hope i wake up in time to get to work tomorrow holy hell

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

i'm so tired i just. cannot.

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@climateaidil you can use mine whenever, i renewed mine but i don't go nearly often enough to make it worthwhile

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@t0tientqu0tient it really does :( i'm lucky not to live in the usa but the ripple effects are far-reaching

the nonprofit sector is basically dead

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

okay gang i think i have experienced enough of the corporate world to know that it's academia or bust

now what

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@matthras ooh i haven't been in maths in ages, though! built my reputation thus far in international relations and politics

i've been in business development for a news agency since leaving my last RAship and it pays much better than research did, but it is mind numbing

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@linguanumerate not just about career stuff, just generally

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@linguanumerate i would LOVE to chat

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

this was wild

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

cannot believe i am literally going to the real life asean summit what the hell

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@BarbaraFantechi thank you!! i genuinely cannot believe this is real life

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

hi i'm alive (barely)

[lauren ipsum @drinkderiver]

@sunnoxygen i'm so glad it went well! 🤍 miss you muchos too, can't wait for it to be humanly possible for me to come visit you