A thankless task

I love being a teacher. Being in the classroom with a bunch of teenagers really makes my day. What I don't enjoy is the detrieus tasks that go with my job and this is one of them - the joy of exam entries!. Nothing in life is guaranteed to cause more stress than this. All those questions - Have I put them in for the right entry? Is it even the right exam? Will there be enough papers? What stresses me out even more is having to do it on a spreadsheet. Give me a pen and paper any day.

But not any old pen. My dad is a big fountain pen user and I guess I take after him in that respect. If I can write with a nice pen I will. And despite the spreadsheet I still resort to writing it all down first. Some might call me a luddite but having nice handwriting is becoming a lost art and I think that is a shame.