I was just given this handy little piece advice:

‘you’d be amazed how little time everyone else spends thinking about you’.

Apparently, other people are actually far less concerned with the idiot things I say and do than I ever thought.

Well screw them. If I’m going to invest my time developing my paranoia and use up much of my day imagining conversations and pre-screening every word I speak, then I should be entitled to a reasonable level of attention.

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Was waiting at a traffic light yesterday when I saw the guy in front of me roll down his window and chuck out a Wendy?s bag. Presumably he?d just finished his delicious flesh and bones burger and took advantage of the handy ever-present rubbish bin to dispose of the remains.

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Went on a little comedy road trip tonight to Temple, Texas. A new club has opened there and it’s a pretty nice place – decent stage, friendly audience and a manager who really wants to build his business.

Two car pools of local comics set off from CapCity. One driven by Chris, with Jesse, Sean and Dan. And the other with me, Chuck and Natalie. You don’t need to know them. As I was driving I35 and drifting in and out of the conversation, I couldn’t help wondering which carload would be the greater loss if we got pushed off the road by a truck trailer and into the 10 feet high concrete wall which the I35 people like to put up at various points to scare the crap out of me.

Not that I’m wishing or anything, just can’t get the thought out of my head.

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My husband Erik?s most recent blog is about his fantasy of being able to go back in his childhood, but with his current brain.

‘This goes beyond wishing you had known something that would have helped you: it’s a dream of reliving your life with full knowledge of what’s coming and with a lot of experience to help reshape that life.’

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‘Don’t worry Maggie..will you be on your deathbed wishing you?d spent more time cleaning the house??

I don?t know who came up with this nonsense, or why someone was presumptuous enough to say it to me when I made a passing comment about the untidy state of our house, but my answer is yes.

Our place is an absolute mess right now. Not in a ‘please excuse the mess, we’ve only been cleaning it for the past 24 hours’ way. More in a dishes in the sink, laundry to be done, surfaces to be wiped, dog hair to be swept, things to be dusted, nasty stuff in the refrigerator to be chucked, three nights of take-away containers to go out kind of way. I feel a bit slovenly. Studenty. Same thing.

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