So i filled the application form in, I sent it off 30 minutes before the deadline on Wednesday last week, then I forgot about it for a while. fast forward to Tuesday (INSET day after a Friday, Monday holiday) and I notice an email in my inbox from myjobscotland. Weird. I open it and it wishes me congratulations...

4th years have just left the building. I have an Int 1 4th year class who have 3 personas in my classroom. No 1: Hard working but badly behaved. No 2: Well behaved but they do no work. No 3: Swinging from my roof tiles. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground with them. I never seem to get working...

Why has no one ever invented a medal for completing half of the race?! This should change in my mind. I am as you can probably guess half-way through my first term. Thus far, the covert operation of 'pretend to be a teacher' has remained largely undetected, which is a job in it's own right...

‘Pinch…Punch…It’s the first of the month!’ and yes I am still pretending to be teacher. The nuclear war alert that is currently performing a cameo as my alarm clock is as keen as ever to let me, and anyone else in a 2 mile radius know that it is indeed ridiculous o’clock again and low and behold, time...