A fun place in Malden Center we just found

Lis is working from home today, so we went out to a buffet in Malden Center. Unfortunately, Fu Long's really disappointed us. We knew we were in trouble when we noticed that they now have tablecloths . . .

The buffet is one dollar more expensive -- and a full steam table smaller than it used to be. Ah, well. It was okay, but it wasn't the amazing buffet I remember.

However -- as we were walking from our parking space to the restaurant, we saw, RIGHT around the corner, a place advertising bubble tea in the window. As bubble tea is one of the things Lis loves, we went in after we finished lunch.

There were a half-dozen kids -- they looked Vietnamese or maybe Cambodian to me -- sitting around one table, with bubble teas and smoothies and so forth in front of them. There were flat-screen TVs on all the walls, playing Vietnamese music. I know it was Vietnamese, because it was karaoke -- the lyrics were on the screen.

It's a bubble-tea / karaoke teenage hangout spot. A karaoke cafe, rather than a karaoke bar. I feel like I'm a generation too old to hang out there, but for you young whippersnappers, maybe you want to check it out.

The tea is amazing. It's fresh-made stuff instead of the stuff from mixes like everywhere else we've had.

I've been talking a lot about depression recently

You know, since I declared war on depression at the end of January, one of my friends has gotten her doctor to change her meds to some that worked better, one friend has decided that he has had a depression problem all his life and is going to find a therapist to start working on it, and one has decided that she deserves to have Nice Things in her life and not have everyone dump on her all the time.

I'm kinda happy about that, y'know?

Anyway, because I've been talking about it, I decided I'd write a little about what depression is like for me.

The first thing I want to do is to distinguish between three things which can all be called "depression", may externally look similar, but which are fundamentally different.

They are sadness and melancholy, situational depression, and clinical depression.

When I talk about the thing which I have, which I consider my enemy, which I consider to be an evil and pernicious disease -- I'm referring ONLY to that third one.
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