Off the wagon

It didn't take long, but I watched Saturday Night Live with Lindsay Lohan today. So TV Turnoff week lasted a full 8 hours, from the time I posted until I got home from work. But the show was aired on the 15th, so I suppose that it doesn't actually fall into TV Turnoff Week. So I'm good!

To make up for my indiscretion I spent a half hour reading Schleshinger's biography of Kennedy in the White House, A Thousand Days. I've been reading it since last summer and I'm only 600 pages through it with 400 left to go. After my Minnesota trip last spring I came back with some good advice from Carleton's President Oden, as passed to me from Mike Hendel, "If you want to be a good leader, don't waste your time with books on how to be a good leader. Read biographies of good leaders." So I started with Kennedy. Next it'll probably be 1776, and then I'd like to re-read Anwar Al Sadat's auto-biography, In Search of Identity, which is a fascinating and inspirational read.