Ember (foreground of my profile pic) will happily stalk anything and everything crawling on the screen outside the window. If it actually gets inside, however, she tends to just stare at it. Which may be a good thing considering that some of the frequent guests of our window screen hail from the wasp nest in a nearby tree.
In the world that you grew up in, I would be hidden in a windowless classroom in the back of the school for the crime of having a visible physical disability, and the “antics” you describe would include me and/or my parents questioning that decision.
Cursive writing is lovely. As long as you’re right-handed (or right-pawed). Otherwise you just leave a lot of palm smudge-prints.