As one of the depressive, perpetually-bitter goth-types, I'll just sneer in the general direction of the perky-goths. After all...their mothers all smelt of elder-berries. There is, indeed, a difference between being goofy and being quirky...it says so in hte alt-goth manual, no, really!

No one is depressed all the time...nor is anyone suicidal all the time; if they were, they'd be dead.

Now- turn of your irony-tone and get back to studying!