Fortunately I don’t get called for random drug tests as a cartoonist. I say fortunately not because I would have anything to hide (the only drugs I do are beer and wine), but because they’d probably make me show up at 7am, which is an ungodly time for a nocturnal creature like me.

When I go to my yearly health checkup every other year or so, they always ask me to come in early for my blood test and urine sample. At some point I found out that the only reason they make you come early is because you need to do it before breakfast, i.e. on an empty stomach. Heck, I can do that at 10 or 11 am! Always takes some effort to convince the assistants that I really do get up that late. I wonder if night shift workers never go to the doctor, or why I always get this weird reaction when somebody learns of my shifted life/work/sleep rhythm. I can’t be the only one, can I?