Just spent part of the evening filling the paper work for my mandatory annual physical.

This normally wouldn’t bother me except that I seem to have to do it every year because the company I work for seems to send me to a different clinic every year which means I can’t use the medical history from the year before. I suspect they are either chasing discounted prices or are forgetful.

I suspect the latter because, for three years in a row now, they’ve scheduled health checks for the last few days of the term. It then follows that I point out that I will be missing a number of last classes, depriving my students of vital information about the exams.

This year that was met by  the email equivalent of a huff and sigh and then two weeks of waiting while they found a date. This is an improvement, though, over last year, when they expected my colleague to cover for me in the morning and then expected me to go back to school after having a barium test.

I told them “no way” (full disclosure: the language used was actually, um, more colorful and profane than that) unless someone at the office got a barium test in the morning and then go back to work in the afternoon.

Tomorrow I’m supposed to get a tube down the throat again, but they sent me form about the barium test.

Tomorrow might be kind of interesting.