confessions and observations

Confessions: I am a celebrity news junkie. It is embarrassing. I find the whole celebrity craze ridiculous, and I am one of the people that makes it exist. I am rolling my eyes at myself right now. I actually gave up celebrity blogs for Lent this year. Yes, really. Now I only read one, and never from work. I feel so good about this step in the right direction that I am calling it a happy compromise and read my one blog daily with great delight and pride in my self-control. Oh, and I only buy the magazines if I am on a plane or or one vacation. . . . .

Observations: In case you didn't hear, Paris Hilton went to jail recently. Then she went home. Then she went back to jail. I truly believe that Paris Hilton is the epitome of everything that is wrong with American society at the moment. I was not sad that she would go to jail. I was a disgusted when she was released (and do I think that someone got paid off? yes, I do.) But I do feel a little bad that she has to face her consequences in such a circus. I know that everything about her is a circus. She brought it on herself, but still. No one likes to be scrutinized when she's at her worst.

That said, I think that I have diagnosed her "unspecified medical condition": She is suffering from a severe reality check. I think that reality just hit her like a truck for the first time in her life. It is a reality that most of us learn much earlier. None of us like it, but probably your mother taught it to you early just like mine did: Actually, the world doesn't revolve around you . . . Yeah, I think that 26 years of undiscovered reality is hitting her like a ton of bricks and has been known to cause "severe problems" such as hers.

I'm just sayin' . . .