Can I join the moaning club? Am having a crap time at work. Not as crap as others here, so actually I should count my blessings instead of whinging, but I'm pregnant and entitled to moan like fuck if I want to, right? 
My whinging is all about other people's incompetance or defensiveness. Long story short, local high school: piss up: brewery? No chance 
. I have 3 different people all emailing me conflicting information about 2 days we are meant to be taking our year 5s up there next week, and I'm the one trying to sort it out. WTF? Why can't they do their jobs?
I have parents on my back about all kinds of stupid things, and then on the other side of the spectrum a couple of kids being extremely naughty as there are no consequences at home, their parents don't give a shit and don't back us when we try to discipline them, and it makes me so hopping mad.
And thirdly, levelling some writing today (we have to give each child a writing level so we can measure progress - a bit like exams but you use a collection of recent writing), I went to consult year 6 teachers as unsure about one child who was on the boundary. between 2 levels. Was having a productive discussion with 2 colleagues about it when their year leader came in and basically shouted all over us along the lines of "level him down instead of up, it makes our job easier next year". Yeah, that's how it's meant to work. I make myself look average just so it's easier for you to look like you've done a good job next year. Uh-huh. She didn't even look closely at his work, just shouted me down. And the real reason? She inherited my class last year and I had moved them on loads and because she hasn't been able to do the same, she reckons I over-level everything to make it look better than it is. Gotta love other people's insecurities and lack of competence.
Oh yes, then on the way home the car broke. There was a loud clanging noise and I stopped and looked underneath and one bit of the exhaust pipe had come out of another bit and was dragging along the road. DH had to come out and take the whole back of the exhaust off so the car could be driven home/ Luckily I was not far from home but it made me shaky, hate it when things go wrong like that.
So yeah. Shit week. Although I'm healthy (huge but healthy) and I'm steadily getting through the week and the ridiculous amount of work I currently have, so it's not all bad. But some days, it feels like it doesn't it?
Mickey, it was me about the MatB1 form - that's yet another thing! Doctor's receptionist first tried to fob me off with a prescription charge exemption form, then claimed MATB1 was midwife's job, I phoned community midwifes office who treated me to a tirade of complaints about doctors before insisting they were too busy and it was doctor's job. Phoned docs back and different receptionist couldn't have been more helpful. Hopefully I'm picking it up tomorrow.
Squid, I concur with everyone else, Take the full week. It's clear you are very hardworking - time for a bit of recovery time.
Zoe and kyyria, eek, hope you get it all sorted.
I am off, in my dreams for a large glass or 3 of 
but in miserable reality, to do some more marking. Joyous. When does maternity leave start?