More Reasons I'm Morbid

Since school is basically over, I hopped over to the Charlestown branch of the Boston Public Library to check out some books for "light reading." Here's what I walked out with:

1. The Lazarus Syndrome: Burial Alive and Other Horrors of the Undead
2. Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the trail of Man's Darkest Ritual
3. The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
4. The Casebook of Forensic Detection
5. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery (It's about Familial Fatal Insomnia, a prion disease--related to Mad Cow--that basically means you can't sleep until you die)
6. Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires

Maybe I have issues. And I'm sure the skull sitting on the bookshelf in my dining room isn't helping my case at all. (It's not a real skull, it's plastic, and I got it for helping the anatomy department sort out real skulls. And since it's plastic, I'm allowed to name it. His--it's a male skull--name is David Duchovny.) I should just tell people I have a deep interest in "Anthropology of the Creepy."

But I'm not as "goth" as people apparently think. Why, just yesterday I bought a yellow shirt. Yellow is cheerful, right?