Where to Start

Where to start...where to start.
This has been an interesting...ok, CRAZY last (how long have I been gone for?) few weeks.
I had heard the big bad student teaching rumors before, but I have never experienced such enormous levels of stress, pressure, complete overwhelming, confusion, anxiety, responsibility, business or exhaustion before.
To top off all the insane amount of work we're expected to do, I had a cold for about a week and a half before I got PNEUMONIA last week. Which, by the way, I got observed when I first got pneumonia and felt like the waking dead, and still managed to get decent scores!
There are good moments too, don't want to be a Debbie Downer ;-). Let me think about them for just a second........ok yah, there are good moments when you see the lighbulb go off in a student's head, or when you feel like the suckiest teacher ever, and a kid still says "Are you going to be my teacher for ELD again? YES!!". Or when a girl that has been testing you all week says "You and Mrs. F are my two favorite teachers." Or when (since you have absolutely NO Type A in you) you think of putting on a brilliant vitual caves tour 5 minutes before class to go with the reading, and it's a big hit.
Not to mention I have the greatest cohort of fellow student teachers, who I see every Tuesday for 6.5 hours. Since there aren't any other student teachers at my school, it feels isolating at times, and it's good to talk/vent with my buds. I could talk about each one of them and how great they are. Everyone is always so chatty during class because we're like a family. Blah blah blah.
Let's just put it at this: Still love teaching, love the kids, HATE...err dislike doing all the work. I'm so excited for part-time to be over, seriously full-time will be (should be) a breeze.
Because I missed some days because of sickness and holidays, my OSU advisor was nice enough to give me an extension...most of my other fellow student teachers are already done or almost done with my unit, but I still have 5 lessons left to give, by next Thursday.
My rough draft of my entire work sample is due NEXT FRIDAY, so it's all coming together wayyy fast.
Tomorrow is my final observation, where both my CT and observer will be observing me and having a three-way evaluation/discussion afterwards. Not feeling nervous, just kind of scatterbrained with the million other things I have to plan for tomorrow too!
Have I mentioned, please pray for me.
I was soo bummed to miss my class' Valentine's party last week ;-( It's all right, after a few years of therapy I might get over it.
Well, this is sounding like a not very good post so I will probably wrap this up :-) PS I HAVE been trying to blog, but the past 3 times this obnoxious ad would block my post, making it impossible! So I will try to update next week after most of the craziness is over and tell you about how I did or didn't survive!
P.S. 114 days 'till graduation! ;-)

Get some sleep tonight for me....maybe some good food, maybe some sanity and/or peace of mind....
S