06/19/2026
I had to obtain my high school transcript for my new job, and this is the first time I've seen it in almost 25 years!
In case you were curious what the Mouse was up to in her high school days... I've have shared it here for your judgment 😜
You will see many music-related classes... all with grades of "A". (Are we surprised...??) In fact, I took Music History/Appreciation and Music Theory my Junior year... and then decided to take those classes again my Senior year just for kicks. They weren't supposed to let me, or give me credit for them... but someone dropped the ball in my favor and let it happen anyway!
The only bad grade I really got was in Honors German III my Junior year, and that was because my depression was in full swing that year, and I literally stopped trying.
And when you stop trying in an advanced foreign language class... you get lost and fall behind REAL quick, lol. I remember spending most of that class just giggling in the back row with my friend Buck. One time he brought one of those squawky rubber chickens with him and hid it in his backpack, and kept reaching in to squeeze it real quick during class. The teacher never could figure out what the sound was or where it was coming from 😆
Senior year was a breeze, and even though I was absent 23 times and tardy 23 times, I still sailed through that year with a 3.8 GPA. That's when I learned the valuable and dangerous life lesson that minimal effort can still equal success, as long as you find workarounds, haha.
I graduated on May 25th, 2002 with a 3.4 GPA and received an Honors Diploma (huzzah!).
It's weird how something like a piece of paper from 25 years ago with numbers and letters on it is used as a snapshot of how capable you are as a person in society. Not sure that I like it, much. But... here we are 🙃
