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What do I have to show for six months on Match.com? Bubkes. Even still, I’m so busy –
1. getting through all ten Best Picture nominations [2] before the Oscars on March 7. (If you haven’t seen The Hurt Locker and Avatar, try to catch them on the big screen.)
2. watching videos from the TED conference [3].
3. preparing 2009 taxes. (Actually, I haven’t gotten to this one yet.)
4. reading short stories by J.D. Salinger [4], because his writing is as brilliant and accessible as the tributes suggest.
5. making chicken and beef stock from scratch, having been humbled by Mark Bittman who writes The Minimalist [5], a down-to-earth column for the Times, in which he urges home cooks to clean their kitchen shelves of boullion cubes and canned stock.
(bubkes: Yiddish for nada, zilch, nothing.)