That time of year

Yes, its the time of year all teachers dread ... or maybe its just teachers at the school I teach at ... REPORT WRITING TIME! Not that writing reports in itself is a horrible experience, its just that it is a very time-consuming one.
Of course I've drawn the really short straw with teaching Humanities - not only do I have more subjects to teach (and therefore work to mark & reports to write), but I also get the type of work that is more time-consuming to mark. The school has the wonderful idea to make all electives (ie: everything I teach except 9/10 English) 2-hour per week subjects ... so I have 8 classes in total to teach, report on, etc. Add to that the nature of the work, which is typically more essay/project based & I wonder why I didn't decide to get into maths teaching, where for the most part it is simply a case of putting together an answer sheet & comparing what the students have done to what the correct answers are.
Of course this is further complicated by the fact that I'm probably better at maths/science stuff than I am at English & it leaves me very frustrated. Heck, my year 9 Modern World class basically became a science class involving balancing chemical reaction equations as I spent a lot of the class showing about 4 students how to do them. When you add in the fact that whenever I explain maths to kids, they seem to get it, it really makes me question my career choice.
Of course the clincher for all this is that I'm not an English teacher ... I didn't stusy English at university, and I barely passed English in high school ... which is not the same as saying I *can't* teach it (I just was never interested in the Shakespeare, Coleridge & other 'classical' playwrights, poets & novelists that I studued at school) ... its just that I don't have any formal training to teach it (assuming you don't count the 2 hour 'How to teach English if you are a History teacher' tutorial at uni).
The attitude of students really doesn't help the cause, particularly with so many students who have little to no interest in learning (at least as far as the curriculum is concerned) ... there really must be something better!!