prioritizing

I don't know how to do it. I spend 10-11 hours a day at school (commute included) and bring home at least 2 hours worth of work each night. I only do about an hour of it though, because my brain starts to shut down. I'm perpetually behind, and it's only going to get worse. I can't keep up with grading, so I'm trying to figure out exactly what I want to grade. I collect everything, because if I don't, the kids will either not do the work or will do a crappy job. Some things I just mark as done or not, but that's still 90 papers to mark in my gradebook. I need to enter grades onto Excel also. If I could get a laptop to use at school, I could enter grades there and have a jump drive to keep the info at home as well. I know there's a laptop that't not being used, but I don't know if they will part with one from the (somewhat useless) mobile lab.

I turned off Strictly Ballroom that I just bought on dvd after 10 minutes because I need to get grading done so I have tomorrow to work on lesson plans. This sucks, as I usually take all of Saturday off from school work. Part of my problem is being new to the curriculum, as well as to having this many students. It's just...how do the teachers with families do it? How do they keep up with the work and actually have a life at home? Once again, I really wish I had another language arts teacher to plan with. I feel like I'm going at this totally blindly. All this work to try and raise some stupid test scores, and now the principal is adding to the workload. He has good intentions, but I feel like it's another way of saying I'm not doing things right.