Madonna and A-Rod

"So do you think their marriage can survive this?"  I asked.

Martin, my boyfriend of a few months, slowly turned his attention away from his computer and looked at me from across the room with a blank stare.

"What?" he asked confused.

"Madonna and Guy.  Do you think their marriage can survive this media crisis?"  I clarified.  The news frenzy surrounding Madonna and A-Rod's alledged affair was turning into a virtual tsunami and I was firmly caught in the whirlwind.

Martin looked at me as though I had asked him to solve a calculus equation with his fingers. 

"Why would I care about Madonna and the state of her marriage?" he asked.

"Well, I know you don't care, but it's current events," I reasoned. "We should stay abreast. You never know if the breakdown in their marriage could someday be a useful learning point that we could apply to our own.  Should we get married..."  I mumbled as an afterthought.  For a second, I questioned if I should have let him see this vacuous side of my personality in which I indulged unabashedly.

He chuckled at my nonsensical answer, turned, and continued to search for business opportunities online without response.

I decided right then and there that I should re-focus my attention on things that really matter in life!  Things that are important and could positively affect not only the course of my life, but also of others.  I picked up the remote, firm in my resolution to spend my leisure time more constructively, and turned to Entertainment Tonight.

Rome, as you may have heard, was not built in a day.  Not to mention that I am a woman who believes in experiencing the total human experience.  I indulge in healthy foods, junk foods, exercise, recline, achievement, play, John Steinbeck and Us Weekly.

After all, if this story is being covered by CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC,  The New York Post, The Daily News, The New York Times, Today Show, Good Morning America and presumably hundreds of other news media outlets throughout the world...how could it possibly be junk?