Yes and no. There are certain things that are considered more feminine in ballet, but I would say that most of what he's doing are more traditionally masculine in classical ballet terms, largely because so much of it is jump and leap sequences. The line between classical ballet masculine and feminine also gets really…

I was seriously concerned that he was going to hit the overhang on a few of those jumps. Like, I'm sure he was fine and had plenty of space and the camera angle made it look like that, but damn.

Seriously. Lived through WWI, the Russian Revolution, WWII in the USSR (including the Siege of Leningrad- one of the deadliest sieges in history), immigrating to another country on the other side of the planet after living in a place that vilified it for most of her life, and then dying because someone whose job it is…

Oh look, you have described the tourists I'd run into in India all the time that made me eye roll so hard I probably broke something. I'm white and American so people felt comfortable saying shit to me like, "isn't India so spiritual, people live so simply, this is so wonderfully trapped in time" to which my reaction…

I've done the same and have found people are generally nice if you're not an ass, even if they have distain for the US in general. I mean, I have met people who truly dislike the US, the government, and its image and who were really cool to me personally, because most people I've met are able to accept that not…

This has been my problem too. I can barely fit their jeans over my thighs and calfs but they don't sit on the waist well enough to not fall off if I sit down. The sweaters are exactly like you described on me too.

The proportions are ridiculous. I'm short, 5'2", but their sweaters are barely long enough on me in the torso while the sleeves are super long. What does that look like on someone taller than me?

That was my reaction. The lightened skin is one thing. The fact that she doesn't look like herself at all is a whole other. I'm sure some of that is that they have weird ass lighting on her made both things way worse.

Right? I mean seriously, infrastructure, schools, paying the people keep things going (teachers, government workers, police, firefighters, etc), the armed forces that the Republican party always claims to support, health and safety regulations, you know the things that basically keep us from being no different than a…

Oh I'm sure they'll find something. I never can tell what they'll find horrible but there's always something too sexual or inappropriate and someone must think of the children!

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.