Typosphere, HELP!

Help! Prince Henry is injured!

I was in the middle of typing up my resume on my Royal KMM. I hit the return lever to go to the next line, and all of sudden everything just STOPPED. When I press a key, the type slug won't go any higher than this:

And the space bar doesn't do a thing at all. I tried fiddling with every setting I could find, no luck. I tried flipping the machine over to see if something had come lose, and couldn't find anything. I know from cleaning that occasionally things get jammed up and that Henry really dislikes being upside down (I can sympathize) but this time even that didn't free up whatever is blocked. Can anyone give me a hint as to where to look to find the problem?

ETA: So I sat down with a bowl of Reese's Puffs, determined to fix whatever was wrong with Henry. Flipped him over again, and lo and behold, turning the caps lock on and off while in that position was all it took to fix whatever it was that was wrong. Behold the power of chocolate.

How?

How do you tell your family you want to leave and never come back? How do you fit the rest of your life into two suitcases and two carry on pieces of luggage? How do you purchase a one way ticket to a place you've never been before?

I don't know how to answer these questions. I have to reserve my ticket by Monday. One way, or round trip. My parents have no idea I'm even considering transfering to a school in Europe. How can I possibly get them to understand in five days? They don't even want me going on the study abroad trip, with a set return date.

I have to go home tonight and pick up my information packet from the school in Florence. I don't know what to tell them, or how to say it. I'm afraid of what my dad will do, and I don't want to hurt my mom. Alice thinks it's all so easy--just tell them. Well that's fine for her. Her parents want to go back to Europe. They're planning on visiting us.

My parents don't travel. My dad is more anti-social than I am. He's perfectly happy never leaving our little town. He still works in the same zip code where he was born, raised, and lived until I was a year old, and doesn't see any reason for that to change.

I've known for a long time that I can never be happy in Madison County. I've known for a while that I need to get out of Ohio. After spending the summer in Quebec, it confirmed that I will probably never be happy in the US.

But how can I put those thoughts into words when I know how much it will hurt my family?