Okay, so.
First of all, I love you all so much. Logging back on for the first time in months to everything y'all have said truly made my day.
Second, I can't believe it's been months. Genuinely. I was trying to think of everything I've done 'recently' that's kept me from writing and, looking at the list, I honestly forgot I'd done so much.
I'm running a programme of around 60-70 students independently (no teacher instructor) for my job as deputy head girl. I've run events (week long even), turned 18, had my school's winter ball (where I even met the boy I am now dating, our next date is saturday), Christmas, multiple exams... The list keeps going. But so does life, I suppose.
I had a 15 hour art exam, and then had the audacity to continue until I reached 28 cumulative hours (with 7/8 hours straight as my longest day). I'm still not done but its beautiful. I can't show you it rn because if it's circulated anywhere online then the exam board won't accept the coursework (despite the fact my teacher, who's art room I am now a resident of, can very much attest to how I've spent my life's blood on this piece). I plan to enter it into competitions when I'm done.
Now I have other mock exams, chemistry went okay yesterday and my first english paper today went brilliantly (but English is my thing so..). Art essay is finished, English Language investigation is finished (thank god. Four thousand something words, 20+ hours of recordings of a cult leader later... 20,000 ish words of processed data for close analysis. The entire final document is 59 pages long and I don't think a single other study in the world references the bible and the FBI vault records in the same references... Until now, anyway). Other English language is developing.. I hate the second half (it's a different format to what we normally write and, since it's not currently working, I'm annoyed.)
(pt 1.. find the rest in the replies)