Michael Braun's Blog

What in the world am I going to write about once the election is over? I mean seriously, I can’t credit any spurt of inspiration or genius for my increased blogging. It’s been the election straight-up. It inspired me to write more. Something so important, I can’t possibly ignore it. But what happens after Nov. 4? Not that there won’t be politics to write about, but for heaven’s sake, the worst president of all time has been in office since I started blogging, and I didn’t write something about politics everyday. Once Obama is in office (which can happen ONLY IF all you young people get in gear and VOTE!!!), I doubt I will have a lot of political issues to comment on.

This summer, I had a lot of fun writing about whether my former employer was a cult or not. The topic stretched out into a several part series. As I start working on my own research ideas in grad. school, I think that format may offer some real potential for future writing. Perhaps not as hard-hitting as my political commentary (c’mon, NY Times – offer me a job!), but it’s at least something else I’m interested in.

Other than that, I’ve got no good ideas. Maybe I should start watching a lot of sports so I can write about that. Or I could get into underground Hip-Hop and make that a central focus. Or, if you go back into my archives, you can see that my previous college blogging was a lot of talk about what I was doing on a daily basis. Fun to look back and read, though I’m not sure how entertaining it was. Nor do I suspect that it drew a lot of outside readers to my blog (unlike my political writing, which has done reasonable “business” from search engines).

The weather is beautiful outside (though it’s getting a little cloudy). I’ve got papers to grade and reading to do. Tonight, I’ll be studying for my stats exam on Thursday. I’m excited to vote on Tuesday to get this election finished!! Even though my blogging my grow slow and dull, it will be fun to see something else in the news for once.