I am once again impressed by the local hospital folks' problem-solving and administrative skills. They usually send me the lab form for blood tests by mail so that I can test at the local branch instead of the main location (which requires a train ride). But they forgot this time, and I *had* to get it done on Monday.

So I sent them an e-mail over the weekend while the department was already closed, asking if they could send me the lab form anyway, hoping that they'd figure out a fast-enough way, and pondering whether to opportunistically make a test appointment for Monday already even though I might not have a form to go with it.

I ended up doing that, but I needn't have worried; first thing this morning I got my lab form by e-mail, with the note "we've marked it urgent so that this time you can go do it without an appointment". Awesome. They'd apparently already foreseen this conundrum even though I didn't mention it to them.