I already told my friend how much I was looking forward to the inevitable Parents Television Council complaints tomorrow. It's one of my favorite parts of the Super Bowl.

It's freezing here and grey and nasty and when it gets like this all I want is to go to Hyderabad. It's not my home but it feels like a bright spot in the places I've lived.

Hyderabad is amazing and I love it (it is where I lived) and it doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. The food alone is worth a trip.

I cannot argue this even a little bit. Ghee is also high on my list.

So, I will say- I was there for a few weeks before I got into the street food. That was a few weeks of letting my body adjust to the different things in the environment. Other people I know did not adjust or have quite the tolerance to things that I have and were sick constantly. Since you're only going to be there 2…

Interesting. Yeah I'm from the Midwest, went to school here and recently enrolled in grad school, also in the Midwest and all that's required are TDaP and MMR. I think my undergrad required meningitis too. For my grad school, students using the health center are apparently required to be screened for TB, not…

So, partially because I'm an American born after smallpox was eradicated and have never seen the after effects of it, and partially because I read too much history, it freaks me out to remember that smallpox was an active thing in parts of the world recently enough that we have all of those photos. Come on people,…

Where are you that the TB vaccine is required? I ask because it's one of the few vaccines I've never been told to get, despite my traveling to places where you'd expect to catch TB. It definitely wasn't required when I moved into the dorms. Is it a newer requirement?

Off topic, but true facts- I'm an American who lived in India and was a bit, er, lax about paying attention to things like where my food came from/not drinking water/ all of the things they warn Americans visiting developing countries about. I didn't get sick in India, not once, no food poisoning, no abnormal…

Dude, this is a fear of mine. A minor, hypothetical fear, like sinkholes (only less likely), but seriously, ever since my dad showed me his smallpox vaccine scar as a kid and explained that I didn't need one, I started coming up with all of the ways I could possibly need one.

I never fit into my mom's wedding dress. She was less than 100lbs when she got married and even though I was thin when I was young, her ribcage was tiny. Like I could fit into the prom dress with the stretchy empire bodice, but nothing that required anything less than a 36inch bra band.

I also rarely can drink anything as large as 20 oz, especially if it's hot because it gets cold before I'm halfway done.

Welp, young Nick Offerman looks disturbingly like the thin version of my good friend. I did not realize this until now and it's freaking me out a bit.

Some pizza needs a fork. It's a fact. Especially my homemade pizza with where I haven't figured out the topping to crust ratio and it's structurally unsound and casseroles pretending to be pizza (I'm looking at you Chicago).

venti skinny cinnamon dulce latte

My husband is one of those guys who says "eat less, move more" but he's also one of those guys who doesn't gain weight easily and looses what he does gain quickly. For me, yes, at the basic level, it is eat less move more, but I have to eat so much less and move so much more than he ever has had to. And I don't even…

If you see the full picture, at least it's not a mermaid dress, which at least is something different.

Mine did too and I was always so disappointed that I'd never get one because I had had chicken pox as an infant (and was apparently super super sick and so covered in the pox that I looked like a giant one). By the time the vaccine was available, my siblings and I had already had the chicken pox.

My GP recommended going to one because I used to have insane tension headaches. The chiropractor was able to pin point the origin of said headaches and show me what to do to relieve it, which actually helps. However, I call shenanigans on people who claim they help with things that aren't muscle or joint related (my…

The kids in school used to have a running debate as to whether scarlet fever and scarletina were different illnesses.