DVR-related: Okay, this week’s Gilmore Girls was really great. I love Emily. In fact, I almost have no complaints about the episode. Almost. Because Logan was in it, and any episode with Logan is an episode about which I have complaints. You know what would have been awesome? If CuteDean came to the hospital!! But I know he’s busy having supernatural powers and stuff. Still! Christopher is llllllame.

Home-related: Today I am going to buckle down and weed through my cook book collection. Even if I made a new recipe three times a day, every day for the rest of my life, I would not get through a fraction of my cook books. I’m going to recycle the old cooking magazines except for my Bon Appetits from the early nineties, because those are what you need when you have a quantity of butter and cream you want to use up. There are also several cook books that I’ve not cracked open in years, even to get ideas, so they are going. With the (still plentiful) books that are left, I’m trying to commit to actually making a new recipe from them twice a week. (Generally I use my cook books for inspiration more than actual recipes, but most of the time I end up cooking the same stuff or type of stuff over and over.) Today my plan is Lekach, or Eastern European honey cake, from Mark Bittman’s The Best Recipes in the World. I happen to have all the ingredients and it looks pretty easy and not too sweet.

Publishing-related: If you are headed to the SCBWI NY conference this weekend, my editor, Jennifer Hunt, is doing one of the break-out sessions! If you end up in her session, she is nervous so smile and nod, be nice and attentive and ask an intelligent question that is not about fonts or margins. If you there’s a lull in the question time, I dare you to raise your hand and say, “Sara Zarr told me to say hi.”