Chard. I took this picture in January.*

Oh, hello there.

No, I was not in a terrible accident which prevented me from updating my blog for the last 5 (!!!) months. And no, Rob was not so disgusted by his Julie Powell moment that he forbade me from ever food blogging again. My absence has a very simple and much less interesting explanation: I've gone back to school.

It was all very sudden, you see, and every time I thought, I need to update Delicious Coma, I was immediately distracted by the hundreds of anatomy flashcards I needed to memorize. No one grades you on your food blogging. Priorities were set. I apologize.

So it was all very sudden, but it was also very right, because the career I'm going back to school for combines so much that is important to me: good food, healthy living, sustainable farming, education and community involvement. I'm applying for a masters program to become a registered dietitian with a focus in community nutrition. Rather than helping those who already sick, I want to help people keep from getting sick by improving how they eat. I want to spread my love of vegetables -- the weird ones (purslane!), the ugly ones (kohlrabi!), the ones everyone is supposed the hate (beets! broccoli! kale!).

Unfortunately, a bachelors degree in film production doesn't prepare you very adequately for a masters of science degree, so I have about a year of science prerequisites to complete, core classes like physiology, organic chemistry and microbiology that I have to take while still working full-time. So you see why there is little time for blogging. Or tweeting or reading other people's blogs or attending PR dinners or even eating a dinner that isn't a bowl of Whole Foods organic soup dashed down at my desk before I leave work for a class that ends at 10 PM.

I still have pictures on my camera from March.

I can't promise the next semester will be any different, or the one after that, or the one after that. But I'm still here and I hope you'll stick around too. I think it'll be worth it.

* I was going to write a post about how much I still love the South Central Farmers' CSA boxes, especially in winter because the produce lasts for a full two weeks. But it's not winter anymore, so just take my word for it.

After several months of feeling vaguely irritated by the existence of Twitter, followed by several months of having a Twitter account and having no idea what to do with it, I have finally embraced the little blue bird. Add @deliciouscoma to follow my daily eats. Look, I even have a button!

Photo by greentea, a.k.a. andreakw.

So this is awesome. Last week I got a comment from Andrea, telling me she had made my kurogoma cupcakes with matcha-cream cheese frosting for Cupcake Camp Toronto. While news of an event attended by over 400 cupcake-crazed people is pretty fantastic in and of itself, it was trumped by a follow-up email letting me know her cupcakes had been crowned Best Flavour Combination in A Cupcake by the Food Network judges. My little cupcakes! I couldn't be more proud.

In unrelated news, I am now the food editor for Evil Monito, an LA-based online magazine and am posting over there twice a week. I've already written about foraging for citrus, squash-blossom quesadillas and the connection between eating meat and climate change. You can subscribe to all my posts here. Take a look!