My age waiver was approved today.  

My mom is driving to the MDCPS district office to pick up official copies of my HS transcripts to be FedEx'd to Germany.

There is still an outside chance that everything will be signed and sealed before the New Year.  (Insert here the difference between the definitions of "possible" and "probable")

I should mention that at one point the school district office called me to say my high school records had been completely lost.  Yes, that was upsetting, but in the two hours that they were presumed missing/destroyed I was compiling a list of teachers to call.  I wanted to scoff at them for thinking they could ever put anything on my "permanent record".