Ancient

Today my lab had a birthday potluck for HC and myself. It was very nice of them, given my record for leaving old bacterial cultures around the lab, leaving plates in the incubator for weeks, and not getting over there much to do research.
They got us both red carnations -- sniff -- I haven't been given flowers since my graduation from GFU almost three years ago.

On my birthday I will be 8 days more ancient than I am now.

I managed to work in that lab for over half a year without a couple of the members knowing my age. I guess I more or less assumed that everyone knew the general ballpark of my years, but one lab member was very surprised to learn my age and another said it fit more with the age he thought I looked but assumed I could not be.