The good news: Tickets to Spain are paid for, my few wardrobe pieces and bikinis have arrived, and we leave in 11 days. Hala Madrid!

Yes! Literotica is my go-to when I need to read some smut (the tags make it easier to find what I want than browsing endless pages). You're the first person I've ever encountered that also has heard of it.

Hala Madrid!!! Can't believe it's only 13 days until the match!

The only men I think can rival Ryan Gosling for sexiness is Cristiano Ronaldo (who I cannot wait to see play on the 17th) and my own significant other (who is a former model himself so...yeah).

They use the same models over and over for reasons I'm sure you're already familiar with: they're agency vetted, they show up on time, they are easy to work with, it's easiest to work with the same team consistently, they were available, they fit the sample sizes.

The financial knowledge especially. I'm the youngest person I know with both a Roth IRA and a 401k and I've already hit my annual limit for my Roth (I hope to hit it for my 401k as well but we'll see how that goes), and I literally just applied for my first credit card this year. I was very lucky to have a friend that…

Bravo! Encore!

Uh, yes, because these products were all just on one huge rack where there was likely a 12 hour day of shooting. Have you ever done product line shooting? Because I do it all the time. They book their regular models for the day and send all the samples they have to the photography department, everything gets shot and…

As mad as I want to be at this, I have a feeling all this shit was shot like 4-6 months ago at headquarters and those are just their regular product models. As a small aside, in Philly there's this divide between the wanna-be fashion industry and the real players, and I see potentially great non-white models working…

The only thing I like about this fashion trend disaster happens to be crop tops. Mostly because I love not wearing a full top, and I love not wearing a bra. Shit's too hot for either of those things.

Ahh! One of my really close friends did Kate's make up! That's the only worthwhile comment I have to make, everyone looked stunning and while I don't really like Baz, I will be seeing this movie anyway.

After seeing some of the comments, I really think people do not realize it's a stock photo.

The things people mispronounce in Philly though! If one more person asks me where "Samson" St is, I will be extremely displeased.

Ha, my SO is 6'4", I'm 5'11", he is also on team tall women.

It's fine if you feel that way, but my anthropology degree and anthropological research bring home a nice 180k salary for me so my investment in it being a science isn't something I cling tightly to. ;)

Doug's brain probably can't comprehend it (maybe we'll get lucky and someone else will have to step in for him for the rest of the evening). My research is all about online brand communities for specialty retailers, so I basically do qualitative marketing.

My thoughts as well, double ass status for simultaneously implying that the work of social science is useless.

Yeah, she looks very fit to me, and even if she did have "pudginess" that would say nothing about her technical skills or ability to fire up the fans.

Katie, I'm with you here, but seriously, when you imply that only very thin bodies look like "starving" bodies, you are glamourizing and reinforcing the pro-ana rhetoric of disordered eating behaviors = skinny.

I also generally feel that "fashion bindis" as they're called are slightly different than traditional, more religiously oriented bindis in that they can be worn by non-Hindus without being an appropriation or necessarily offensive, though non-Hindus should pay attention to the context of the situation where they wear…