I'm free.

Well well well..
Uncle Pete ( a reader of my family-friendly blog in a different location) sent me an e-mail that hella brightened up my day.

hey Hannah,
as a fan of your blog (and you), i want to thank you for sharing with us out here in Hannah-blog-land your first Romance In HannaWorld official share! Congratulations to you and the eminently tall Jason; yay!
Congratulations also on the Prudential Award! You keep kickin butt in and outside the do, it seems!
i'm still keepin on over here; digging out after that bummer of another bogus election and all.
forward with the millenium!

I like my uncle pete.
This is one of the reasons I'm considering going to college in
dum dum dum
San Fransisco.
But allow me to explain..
FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) sent me the info I emailed them for today.
Oh. My. God.
First off, theres the alumni profiles. The lady who buys stuff for hot topic graduated from there. She gets to go to concerts for free to see what the clientele are interested in. As for the costume designers, graduates have worked on Clueless, The Wedding Singer, Six feet under, MADtv, Moulin Rouge, Austin Powers...those are some pretty crazy costumes. Crazy-go-awesome.
Then you have the fact that they have a campus in san fransisco and I'd be in close range to some very awesome family of mine (Uncle Pete, Aunt Hedy, Aunt Laura) and some kickass acquaintences (The entire Chabon-Waldman family :-O).
Then, it's simultaneously muy far from my family situation and yet it's in a completely familiar city. I've been to san fransisco damn near 13 times.
Then..the scholarship contest.
Here's the thing-if I am one of five high school students that can create an inventive, enthusiastic fashion show with unusual designs that enters this contest...I can get a free ride at this place for an entire year.
:-O
crazy inventive fashions + mad service hours + infinite fun possibilites = $20,000 dollars worth of awesome education damn near guaranteed to get me a decent job doing what I want.
OH. MY. GOD.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The drawback..I'd never see anybody who stays on this coast. And that would be pretty much everybody. I've developed some real close ties lately. I have no idea how I would be able to rip myself 2000 miles away from my Molly and my Joe...I'd have to start all over.
However...
geez...this school looks so cool. The costume design section of the pamphlet had this person dressed as this ginormous cheshire cat walking down a runway.
I WANT TO MAKE A GIANT PSYCHOTIC KITTY COSTUME TOO!!
FIDM...miss Hannah Sutin's picked up your scent.

Mr. Zanetti: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Hannah: I wanna be a caterpillar!
Mr. Zanetti: A caterpillar?
Hannah: Yeah! Then I could be promoted to BUTTERFLY!

Jason is the Dark Tower.
Anyway, my birthday was successful. I got some fuzzy things and a portfolio and candy and a comic book and a coloring book and money and a glove and a duckie and some other stuff. The assembled crew at Friday's was Joe, Daniella (his lady friend), Jason, Nate, molly, Emily, Choddish, Alyssa, and Bartle. This was one of the best people combinations I have put together in a very long time. We had an awesome time. I like Daniella a lot. If they make babies, I won't be caught complaining.
So ends my drive to blog.

"I'm so good, she screams my name in Japanese."-Not true, but very funny Mr. Stearns.