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I got an unofficial transcript sent out via e-mail from my alma mater, Montgomery High School in Skillman, NJ.

It’s an interesting record. I’m still shocked I got into the University of Chicago with it.

My worst complete grade was a C- in Graphic Arts I as a freshman. I enjoyed the class, it didn’t mean I was good at it.

I definitely wasn’t an English superstar with a B-, C, B and C over 4 years. AP English was a very tough class. I think I was better off not in Honors English like I was in Junior year.

I did do very good in gym/Phys Ed A, A+, A and A.

My German grades were pretty meh, and I don’t know it well now even though I started in 7th grade and took 6 years total: B, C+, B-, and B-.

I guess it makes sense as a future Political Science major and almost History double major that I got an A-, A-, A and A- in history.

And considering I applied to a Chicago as a physics major my science grades were just ok: B, B, B+, and B- and B (Senior Year I took AP Chemistry and Physics).

And I was very good at math and even got a 750 in math on the SAT. But I think I just did it all too fast, took Algebra 2 and Geometry in 8th grade. And then had a terrible teacher in Math Analysis/Pre-Calc, and got a C+ as a freshman, and a C in AB Calculus as a sophomore.

I ended up with a 3.074 GPA and was 42 out of 106 student. Montgomery High School is much bigger now, from 410 students in 1992 to 1687 now.

Whoa.

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I had a prescription ready for the Target Pharmacy in Ansonia, CT today. It didn’t hurt to get early but unfortunately, it wasn’t the drug I actually needed.

I wish I checked my pills and did my weekly medications before I left the house.

When I did it tonight, I had enough through Sunday night of my mood stabilizer. Unfortunately, I will be away through Monday. And the Target Pharmacy which is now run by CVS in closed for Memorial Day.

So I tried to call the 24 hour CVS down the street and see what I can do. I got through to the pharmacy in five minutes the first time but before I finished my answer I was put on hold. I was then put on hold for more than five minutes and gave up. Then tried again and on hold for eight minutes. Then finally got through to someone unhelpful after 10 minutes and finally talked to the pharmacist who said I couldn’t get it filled because of no refills.

45 minute to finally learn I have no call my doctor tomorrow. I’m not impressed.

Pharmacists should have abilities to do a lot more than they usually can. They are incredibly highly trained professionals.

And I wish I checked for my weekly medications earlier. I might have been able to get this solved today.

If it wasn’t the fact that it was my tegretol, I would have just picked it up on Tuesday. I’m less worried about a statin or my lisonpril. So it goes.

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I’m really looking forward to getting off the grid at Rites of Spring in the Berkshires on Wednesday. It’s great to live in an information age where we can Google nearly anything on our phones but it’s super addictive.

One thing I’ve enjoyed this year is playing Final Fantasy XV on my phone. It’s a lot of fun but a time suck. And it’s set up to award you for checking in frequently. These devices we have like being checked. We get dopamine when we find people like our stuff on Facebook, or we win prizes on games like Final Fantasy XV.

And we can drive ourselves nuts with all the continual crises on the news. Especially in Trump World.

I find if I want to read, watch a movie or even watch the Golden State Warriors, the phone is best in another room. It is just so distracting.

It’s good for the system to be in a place every year where I literally can’t check in. It’s healing. It’s also great to be where I don’t hear the noise if of cars all the time. And I can hear the water, the wind, the frogs, the birds and kids at play. And be in my pagan community again for Rites of Spring.

It’s a loud world. And sometimes it’s best in life to turn it off.