I got an email yesterday.

Hi Maggie, I like your photos on your website, see you can wear makeup!! You should dress more like this on stage. Tracy S.

I know, I too was surprised that it wasn’t from my mother.

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Her: “Wow Maggie, you used to be chunky”

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I got a call today for the other Maggie Gallant, the one in New York who continues to flaunt her appearances on Animal Planet as the ‘pet trends expert’ but fails to provide any way for people to contact her. Normally I just get emails through my website - the phone call suggest that her latest PR puff outclasses her recent Pupperware. If I wasn’t such an honourable person, I’d exploit the situation. When I say honourable, I really just mean lazy and unimaginative.

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Erik read my last blog entry. He needs to clarify a point. He’s funny. Read on.

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I ran a 23 minute 5k yesterday (3.1 miles). It equates to a 7:30 mile pace.

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Driving back from the comedy club on Monday night, I passed a building called the ‘Kolache Factory’. Kolaches, for those even less knowledgeable than me are sweet pastry rolls filled with savory or sweet stuff. They started out in Czechoslovakia, which used to be a country, and and are pretty popular in Texas. The Kolache Factory of Austin produces millions of Kolaches every day and provides employment for hundreds of former Communist orphans who would otherwise be destitute.*

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