Drew Miller Confidential

Sid Syndrome and the Abortions

It boggles my mind when people ask me a question that can easily be solved by the internet. I guess it’s ok for like 70 year olds, but seriously you really only need to know one website to solve virtually any problem you have. Most of the time you can find the answer by typing the question out in an english sentence even. Come on!

Really, I hope he wins. He would rule.

Seriously Pam and Jim I have had enough of this, just get your shit together and go out already. I think it may be a problem that I feel more strongly about television characters than about most of the people in my day to day life.

So I have mild acne around my mouth and have had it for like 10 or more years. Self-esteem is not really high on my list of problems or anything (actually I guess if you made a list it would be pretty high just for lack of any other competition) but I would like to get rid of it. I heard an advertisement for free proactiv and someone (maybe you?) told me about it so I said what the hell and ordered it directly after hearing an advertisement on the radio.

In case you were curious about what it is and what makes it the miracle drug of the stars, I can now tell you - it is an exfoliant, an astringent, and a benzoyl peroxide cream. They all seem like pretty high quality versions of each of those products, but it really is just those three things. You’re supposed to use them twice a day in that order, and boom. I can’t tell if it is working yet or not but there is something empowering in at least having a plan, instead of the sort of haphazard approach to acne management I had before. Even if it doesn’t really improve anything, it is nice to know that someone somewhere recommends these products this often in this order.

I’m still going to return the bottles within the 2 month window for getting my money back, but I think I will buy some random crap out of they magazine to give them like $10 or so for the advice.

A while back our cupboard had, for whatever reason, a pretty significant gnat problem. Now there are no more gnats, but probably between 20 and 30 spiders visible just from opening the cupboard doors. I’m not sure what kind of spiders they are - obviously not black widows, but I haven’t gotten a close enough look to tell if they are brown recluses. Regardless, they are almost certainly on their way out considering that the gnats were a one-time food supply instead of a continuous source. This just goes to show that if you don’t worry about cleaning anything nature pretty much just takes care of things for you.

The jury is still out on the nylon socks I got while shopping for dress socks for the Jefferson Jackson dinner. They feel pretty much like what I imagine nylon stockings would feel like, in that they are soft and silky and really don’t provide as much foot coverage as one might normally expect from tradition cotton socks. I can see my damn toes through them, for the love of pete.

It may come as a surprise that I have never worn stockings and just have to guess, considering I have cross-dressed for parties/activities a couple of times and even shaved my armpits and legs once. There is nothing harder to shave than a man’s armpits. I couldn’t even do it myself and made my ex-girlfriend do it. She’s the one I was really into, and sometimes I wonder if I hadn’t made her shave my armpits if we would still be together. Actually this is the first time I have ever wondered that and I’m not even sure we were still dating when it happened - she was just a model feminist.

Speaking of wearing other people’s clothes and trying to get this train back on track, I am now down to zero pairs of pajama pants again. I believe all my pairs are out with women, and I don’t believe I have even made out with any of them. Maybe in some cultures stealing someone’s pants is a very intimate romantic gesture.

And on the topic of stealing, I have acquired two Salt Company t-shirts, one of which I wore to the LGBTAA meeting today. It’s actually a really nice shirt and I will probably continue to wear it for a long time. It is kind of the same color as the campusprogress t-shirt I got and lost already. I should look for that. And of course if anyone is reading this blog who frowns upon stealing, such as Jesus, I am only joking about that. Ha ha!

It is unhealthy how much television I am watching considering my limited spare time. I would say 2/3 of my non-work waking hours are spent watching TV. I am keeping up with Lost, Heroes, The Office, Studio 60, and now I am downloading 30 Rock on top of that. And there is more that I want to watch! Geez!