Silencio es u fama Sotto Voce!

Having a go at the girl behind the checkout does not make you look like a big man. It makes you look like a big arsehole.

While JK Rowling is making spin off movies about textbooks from Harry Potter, what if they did a movie series about the Gilderoy Lockhart textbooks? Each movie would be based on a book, where the first part of the movie would be from Lockhart's point of view, with much flourishing of wands and swishing of cloaks, banishing banshees and such. Then the second half would be the real story as it happened, the toothless hags saving villages. It would have to be a comedy.

Me: Alright! I just scored a new CD Player! Awesome! Animal: Hey! Great CD player! Can I trade you a bunch of flowers for it? Me: You are too cute to say no to! Here you go!

I have just finished reading Damien Leith's "One More Time" for the third time and I am either extremely biased because I'm a fan, or else Damien is just a freaking fantastic writer. There's a certain honesty in his writing and in the characters he creates that makes them relatable. This novel is about a young man, Sean, who is trekking through Nepal but is also battling his OCD. His mind is constantly playing tricks on him and when they are confronted by terrorists, it sends him into overdrive. I myself have always battled with anxiety and that brings in certain OCD behaviours and when my mind has played some pretty nasty tricks on me, I have often wondered "Why me?" "Am I the only one who ever thinks like this?" Upon getting to know Sean's character and seeing all the things he goes through, I feel very comforted because he goes through very similar things to what I have. And even though the character is fictional, I think Sean is a fairly autobiographical representation of Damien, as he also suffers from OCD. It's just nice to know that you are not alone and when you think you're a total freak because your brain does strange things to you, it's ok because it's just the 'mechanics' of the anxiety as Damien very accurately puts it.