2011 - Juan Manuel Maldonado


by Juan Maldonado - August 25 2011

Game of Thrones 1st season – a few thoughts

They knocked it out of the park. There is no other way to say it except that everyone involved looked like they loved what they were doing and it showed. As grandiose as the first season of Game of Thrones was, it was the little things that made it so worthwhile. Some of my favorite… [CONTINUE]


Mewidge

 I got married 17 days ago to a lovely, fiercely independent, self-sufficient, erudite, funny and caring young woman. Does she complete me like Renee Zellweger completed Tom Cruise in that movie where Cuba Gooding, Jr. went missing, never to be seen again? Not really. I’d like to think we were both complete people before we met… [CONTINUE]


College-educated

No longer will I check “high-school diploma/some college” on applications: I am a college grad. One personal goal of mine down. I’m keenly aware of that this will not throw doors open for me. Some of the smartest people I know don’t have or want college degrees, and many of them earn far more than… [CONTINUE]


Game of Thrones

Like much of the country with HBO subscriptions, I have Game of Thrones fever. Granted, this predates the show; I am one of those “fans of the book series” that knows what’s going to happen next. I work at a cable call center and it was there that I met my brother from another mother… [CONTINUE]


First post from my iPhone

This feels momentous… my first blog post from my phone! Momentous and significant. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m more than slightly addicted to my iPhone 4, gorilla grip issues notwithstanding. The phone is a nervous tic for me. I pick it out of my pocket when I’m waiting for my bagel, when someone… [CONTINUE]