become a luthier or DIE!!!!!.....

well i think i figured out what i am going to do next year.... go become a luthier!!... in case you are wondering what that is.... i will explain.... a luthier is a guitar builder/craftsmen/repairman..... so .... this fall i am going to head out never, eat... east to big rapids michigan to study the art of the LUTHIER!!!!!! how cool is that.... the school is called galloup guitars and it costs around 17,000 frog skins for a six month course.... talk about student loans.... but, by the end i will have made my very own acoustic and electric guitars..... also.... i will have purchased an entire tool set so that i will be ready for the employment..... but i think that when i am done i will just go back home and enroll in NIC for a year, working out of my house as a guitar repairman and builder......maybe get a job at the local shop.... then me and my lady can go run off to U of I or WSU to study bbbusssssiiinnnneeeesss and music and love making.... or something like that...... I don't know.... but i mean FRICCK I'M GOING TO BE MAKING MY OWN GUITARS!!!! THE JOY IS TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah! i will only be 3 or 4 hours from my old home town of mundelien!!! so i am pretty excited .... yeah i know .... it's the cooooolest thing ever.... ok... i'll keep it posted as it comes.....