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I have had a short-notice observation get scheduled for Wednesday with one of the Assistant Deputy Heads of our school. Not totally short-notice, as I knew he was due to come in sometime this week or next, but I was aiming for next week with my very lovely year 10s and he can't make it to that, so we're doing it Wednesday, last period of the day, with my enormously fractious year 9s.

Add to that the fact that there's book monitoring (where you hand in a selection of books to show you are marking correctly), History Society (which I am completely not planned for), Latin (which it is my responsibility to plan for this week), and the fact that I am very behind in marking the GCSE coursework paragraphs my two year 10 groups are handing in to me, and I am feeling just a teensy weensy bit overwhelmed.

Please for can it be October half-term break now? I need a week just to catch up on my marking.

Also, a cold is eating my brainpower, leaving me sniffly and slow on the uptake.