Day 8, 9--nothing new under the sun

yesterday, i ate nothing out of the ordinary except some french fries, which was probably a bad idea since no guarantees that they used canola oil and not soy. nothing gastrically unusual happened either.

today, i went back to A Taste of Edmonton and had some more cabbage rolls and a tomato salad that was mostly iceberg lettuce. go figure. did some shopping on Whyte with Lorne and Kathy, too, and had a nice time with them.

word of the day: nihilism

1. Philosophy
a. An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.
b. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
3. The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
4. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
5. Psychiatry A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.