This is just a bit of information I think needs to be posted:

As of right now....

USC: 10

Texas: 16

Read it and weep, Brian.

Oh, and everybody go friend Megan Woolfolk, because she's rad.

So I read a very disturbing, very strange, very good book.  It is titled The Dogs of Babel, and it's a grief novel like The Lovely Bones, which I have just started today instead of the two scenes from Hamlet I should be reading for Mrs. Wolff.  But I was saying.... Basically, a man's wife dies and  the only witness to her untimely demise is the dog, Lorelai.  So bereaved husband goes on sabbatical in order to teach the dog to talk, in order to find out the truth about his wife's death.  Was it suicide or something more?  Incongruencies lead him through the memories of courtship and marriage, and to a cult of amateur canine voicebox surgeons which was perhaps one of the most disturbing parts of the book.  I highly recommend this novel.  If bought I will probably never read it again, just place it on a shelf and look at it, remembering the story for myself.  Because I'm not sure I could read it again, the stuff is so heavy and strange.  But a grippingly good novel nonetheless.  Upon finishing it if I hadn't been in my second period class, I probably would have come as close to tears as I'm able.

Coupled with The Lovely Bones, I should be nicely suicidal in the next few days.  Keep me away from sharp objects.  Like my sword.  Whoops.  Heh-heh.  XD