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Things have got busy for our NQT ― really busy. And she has not been helped by some minor 'disasters' in her form.

Last time I wrote that the first week of term flew past in a whirl. I would like to revise this prior comment and say that, while I may have felt this to be the case at the time, in hindsight the first week was more like a gentle, rippling brook compared to the tsunami that has been this second week; it’s all relative.

I feel like I have been trying to do a million things at once in several different places.

Looking at my timetable I can see where this feeling stems from; where have my gentle “three-free” Tuesdays gone? 

The feeling that I am going to have to plan and mark for all of my classes in a sparse and scattered population of free periods tacked on to the start or end of the odd day is really daunting. 

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