One by one the names on the sign by the door have dropped off. Former lab members gone to postdocs or real jobs, slowly trickling out of the lab.
My name got added somewhere around a year ago, though I've been working in the lab much longer (typical of the maintenance delay).
So as I read the names of people who are gone, and think about how nonessential maintenance works, I take it as a sign that I should get my butt the heck outta here!
.....I swear I haven't been here that long. Right?
...right?
