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

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Joined September 2018
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guys be like "I'm a himbo" but actually be phd candidates in mathematics
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kinda want to take an impromptu weekend trip to jakarta
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sacrificing my weekend once again
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i'm leaving my job :(
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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
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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
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god i really hope i wake up in time to get to work tomorrow holy hell
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i'm so tired i just. cannot.
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i can't keep doing both journalism and business development work, it is truly killing me
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okay gang i think i have experienced enough of the corporate world to know that it's academia or bust now what
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cannot believe i am literally going to the real life asean summit what the hell
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hi i'm alive (barely)
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mother is mothering (derogatory)
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editing a 55 page transcript and it's truly pushing me to the edge of my sanity
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why don't i have someone to make meriah lain macam tiktoks with :(
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colleagues described my first week on the new job as "throwing the baby off a cliff and directly into the sea" so that's how things have been going for me so far
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never thought i would find an industry that makes academia look chill, but here we are
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it's not even that the work is difficult, but the sheer volume of research? i love it :) it's been precisely one week but i've already had to go looking for the ancient texts in the national university's legal archive
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welp. so i found out earlier this month that my supervisor had tendered her resignation while we were still waiting for my new contract at my old place and i am not waiting around to see how the cards fall
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but they made me the offer within three hours, which was tremendously gratifying, and i was completely in a haze and told them i could start on monday
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so now i have a new job??? yay????
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