God, I didn’t think this blog would still exist from the moment I posted under the official Unfiltered domain, but here we are a whole year later and still the worst blogger in the fucking world.
After the weirdest hiatus I’ve ever taken, I have returned and thought it’d be fitting to return in time to post the 7th instalment of my October Horror Movie Fest watchlist.
(You knew a shameless plug was coming)
Now if you’re discovering this blog for the first time, welcome to Unfiltered – the space where I tend to post majority of my most honest and completely uncensored thoughts. This blog originally started as a college assignment back on Wix a few years ago, but thought it’d be best if I went back to my WordPress roots, because this is the platform I started blogging on during my music journalist days in high school.
Coming back to WordPress and creating a space for myself on here felt a lot like coming home. I consider this a digital diary in a way, but it’s also a space to showcase my creative work like my graphic designs, my photography, and my poetry.
I don’t really know what I was thinking when I decided to start up a blog again last year, just that I had hoped to put it to good use over its first year.
…I don’t think I did a really decent job.
But to be honest, I got extremely busy. I think the last post that I wrote in this format detailed how I was working at TIFF at the time, I was a full-time student and in a sorority. It’s insane how much can change in such a short time because I’ve taken on so many different roles since I’ve been this candid.
I’ve been a:
- Junior Social Media Producer
- Creative Projects Coordinator
- Artist Marketing Mentee
- Public Relations Intern
- Marketing/PR Lead Intern
- Marketing and Social Media Coordinator
- Partnerships Assistant
- Second-Year, Full-Time Communications and Critical Thinking Student
…need I go on?
(and the above titles are all from separate organizations by the way…like I said, I’ve been busy)
Although I don’t really know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Even though I’ve managed to stay busy and take on a lot since you last heard from me, I feel like I’ve lived a lifetime and I only just turned 22 a few months ago.
And I did once again suffer burnout in the midst of all that in June, just a week before my sister’s wedding. Only it wasn’t mental burnout, it was physical. I woke up nauseous for 4 days straight and vomited twice on the fourth day.
My family thought it was COVID, but I knew what it really was.
It was my sign to slow the fuck down.
I think I’ve slowed down a bit in terms of my workload and my capacity, but that should explain why I never posted much on Unfiltered after February: my life got extremely crazy by the last week of that month.
March was like the month of opportunity and I was overwhelmed with the amount of things coming my way. Life didn’t take a pause until June, but then it quickly picked back up again in July.
And now it’s October, so shall I catch you up?
Allow me to reintroduce myself:
My name is Ellie. By day, I’m a 20-something Communications Coordinator at Universal Music Canada and by night, I’m a VIP Concierge at History, the new music venue in The Beaches that Drake and Live Nation opened up.
Aside from those two jobs I hold very close to my heart, I am a third-year, part-time Communications and Critical Thinking student at Trent University. Now having finished all my required university elective courses over the summer time as a full-time student, I’ve dropped to part-time status as I work to complete the remain three courses needed to graduate next Spring.
In addition to the wonderful titles that you see above, I’m also a halfway decent blogger and the sole owner of El Unfiltered (the blog you’re scrolling through now), that I sometimes maintain if my time and schedule allows. I post a lot about the cool things I get to do sometimes on my social media accounts, but this blog is really where I get to explain it all – the before and after.
I can’t guarantee you that I’ll update a lot of what’s going on in my life over the next year, but I can sure as hell try. There’s a lot in my life I look forward to sharing like my horror movie watchlists, or my monthly playlists, and so on. But sometimes I get too busy to bare it all like this, so most people get a cookie cutter version on an Instagram story.
But in this latest chapter of my young adult life, I’m hoping to tweak the narrative just a little…
…so here’s to hoping you stick around to see it unfold.
ED out x.
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