Weird dream

The night before last, I had a dream so real, I thought it actually happened.

We have a faculty member who essentially dropped off the face of the earth a couple months ago. There's wispers that he checked into a mental health facility, but I'm one of the last to know anything, so I don't know for sure what happened. I haven't heard anything recently, so why I had the dream when I did, I'm not sure.

I dreamed I was walking by his lab, and it was all boxed up. And someone was telling me if there's any supplies or equipment we could use, we could take it.

Then yeseterday, I saw a grad student in his lab walk past me and into his lab. After I picked my jaw off the floor, I realized that I had only dreamed his lab was gone.

Perhaps it's a good thing that this department is going to be re-named and re-organized. In the last couple years, we had the "Dr. Kay" incident prolong for years, my PI get diagnosed with a brain tumor, one faculty member get cancer that had spread, one faculty member up and leave to ASU, one faculty member take an un-official sabbatical (basically shows up when he pleases), and the one faculty member drop off the face of the earth.

At least the story with my PI has a happy ending...