So.

I hear it’s no longer August. I meant to post part two a bit sooner. But. My life got a bit busy.

Let me explain.

Last you heard, I was headed to Lake Couchiching to go to the best conference ever. Which I went to. And still havent blogged about. There are a million things I haven’t blogged about and I have to admit that the fact that I’d not “set the stage” was holding me up in my head. But it’s time (and it’s been time) for me to get out of my head and into the blog.

A quick update:

• I’ve been in Chef School at George Brown College since September 2011, I finish in April 2012. I found out that I was accepted a few weeks after Couchiching and basically haven’t stopped cooking or thinking about food since.
• Except for when I think about work. I accepted a job as a Conversation Analyst with Sonic Boom in November 2011. I’m part time because I’m still in school, but it’s the coolest company on earth and I can’t wait to tell you about it.
• I’m switching around my blogs: same urls (canadianista.com and herrealworld.com), different purposes. More on that later.

That’s it. I’m going to try my best to not apologize for what I’ve not been posting about.

Just going to jump into the deep end and swim.

As is sometimes the case, I am often busy doing things. And these things impede my progress on tasks like building my website. At least until I have something big come up and I realize that I should really have my website up and running.

And have business cards.

I’m attending a conference this weekend. On my list of things to do before this conference were little things like pick up library books, buy tweezers, think about packing. Big items? Build website, print business cards and actually pack. So far with one day to go I have “build website” done.

Tomorrow will be a jam-packed day. Especially since I want to fit items “go for a swim” and “pick up my CSA share” somewhere in between “panic about laundry” and “perhaps give up on business cards.”

But enough about me today. Wait a minute. This is a website specifically about me. So on with the me stuff!

This website is about my professional me. I assure you, I am always me personally and professionally. But with all sorts of fun things to do on the Internet, I thought it was time to hunker down and actually make a website that I can point people to when they ask me:

“Melanie, what do you do?”

It’s honestly a pretty hard question to answer.

I do a lot of things. You could say I’m an all-around gal.

I write policy and analyze social media metrics and fiddle with PowerPoint presentations and do research. I like to think about bridging the gap between “government” and “people” as I have experience working for parliament and the public service. I am pretty in love with social media and think that social media type tools in the right hands can do amazing things, so I do a lot of work analyzing and writing in that area. I am also in love with my camera and take photos of just about anything.

So as I mentioned earlier I have a lot of stuff to do. And since I haven’t told anyone other than my Mom about this website and that there is finally stuff on it, there aren’t many of you reading this. So I think I will go and try to cross a few more things off my to-do list before I retire for the evening.

xo