This post originally written December 25, 2005.
Another Christmas has come and nearly gone in this author’s life. Though I will be traveling tomorrow to Madison where I will get a lot of gifts and so on, perhaps Christmas hasn’t really ended, but whatever. I’m trying to sound nostalgic. That’s the theme of […]
The post originally written December 24, 2005.
I’m writing partly in response to the comments Tony left about my last blog post. He offered an intelligent review towards critics of using an action to modify chemicals in your brain, presenting a common argument that one who drinks alcohol or uses drugs is merely manipulating the […]
This post originally written December 23, 2005
I grew up from ages 4 until 18 in a small town. I call it a small town, but that contains different meanings to different people. Going to school at a big university, I have heard the term tossed around about cities of 20,000 people. Algoma […]
I just finished watching an absolutely incredible movie - one so interested and engrossing that I felt I had to write about it immediately, even though I have no dependable internet connection.
“Thirteen” came out a couple of years ago to rave reviews. Despite this, I don’t believe that it ever had a […]
Here it is, the promised post offering my reflections on the semester. I know you all have been waiting for this post since I mentioned that I might find time to write something of such magnificent proportions. Read on!
School: School went really well. This is the first semester I have had […]
Oh my, I’m cold sitting here writing this, and we keep our apartment pretty warm. I would turn the heat down if it were just me living here, but other people in this house get cold at night and they don’t like that. So the heat stays at 70 all the time. […]
As I was cleaning up my room today, I decided to put on “Fahrenheit 9/11,” one of my all time favorite movies. I think that it’s amazing that the movie can still move me to tears. The scenes of people crying watching the Twin Towers, the scenes of Lila Lipscomb talking about her […]
I had a final today - it went awesome! It helps that I studied more for this final than the two previous two exams for the class. I studied on Friday night with Megan and Saturday morning with Krista. I also studied Thursday night and all day Friday. I was really […]
The semester is finally over. And what a journey it’s been. I went from being a fully bearded man mistaken by hippies for a hippie myself… into a goteed, beatnik punk… into a clean shaven upstanding youth… into a young republican?! Well, not yet. But I think I might get my […]
I got done with my story revision last night, and had it printed before 10:30 pm. I had my reading journal (for the same class) completed and printed by that time as well. When I left the library around 10:30, I felt a bit of a spring in my step. This semester […]
I’m surprised how well I am holding up under this immense pressure. When I looked at this week from the distant perspective of last, I felt there was almost too much work to be done. I had trouble believing that I could get it all completed. But with that creepy schedule I […]
This weekend has been one long period of not getting enough sleep. I would give you some sort of more clever introduction, but I am too tired to even think like that. Well, not tired physically, but mentally I’m still somewhat wiped.
Friday night, we had our frist night of the dumate CD release […]
Here is a poem that I wrote today, while watching snow fall from a library window (wall of windows, actually). I will post it and let you enjoy, and keep you in suspense while you wait to hear how the dumate album release party went.
Whisking Snow Bits
By Michael Braun
Written December 10, 2005
The snow falls […]
Because I have so much work that I have to do coming up in the next few days, and because my weekend evenings are gone Friday and Saturday, I felt I needed to work out how exactly I was going to use my time to make sure that I was able to get all my […]
Today marked the completion of my Christmas shopping for the 2005 Christmas season. This is easily the earliest I have ever gotten done with all my shopping. I recall last year, I was trying to get it all completed before leaving town after finals on the 22nd of December, and then still having […]