Day 267: how do I deal with a terrible day?

[maeve66]

Often, I go out to eat at a restaurant that is familiar and comfortable. For some reason THE most familiar and comfortable restaurant that tends to attract me on a day that sucked, for whatever reasons, is the Holly Mandarin restaurant on Piedmont. It's this huge, relatively slick-in-decor, Chinese restaurant that does Szechuan as well as Mandarin and Cantonese. It used to be called something else, before one of the employees there bought it from the boss. It's never that crowded, and it's a very pleasant place to read a book and eat a meal.

Other things I do to get the taste of a bad day out of my mouth (see how I transitioned there?): I come home and read a book; I go swimming at the Richmond Plunge (not as often as I would like to... I wish that salt water pool were closer); I write in a journal; I pet a cat. I make a pot of tea.

I do not generally take a bath, or go for a walk, or call a friend. Well, sometimes I call (or text, or chat with) a friend. It depends on how bad a day it was.