I miss year 10 when I would play video games on a school night with all my friends without feeling guilty that I wasn't studying in that moment It doesn't help that I go to a different highschool than all those friends so I barely interact with them anymore since we are all so busy with the HSC... Year 9-10 really were the golden years
also need to get this off my chest: last term made one of the best poems i've ever done. excessive 4 pages of doublespaced freeverse (+ fandom-related!!) all for an ungraded for-fun assignment. english extension & advanced teachers gave thumbs up. did so well during in-class recitation but was too scared to ask if i could recite it in year-wide poetry slam. i am still seething :head in hands: