friday night

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Friday Night

• What to do on Friday night?

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What you can do at Friday night
Man, its Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday, the only
day of the week fully sandwiched by pure
happiness there is no reason to be productive
today. Youve got a solid two days in front of
you to just chill out and catch up if you
absolutely have to, not to mention all of the
festivities youll be partaking in tonight.
Cruise Facebook, Google yourself, spend two hours
on Wikipedia learning about the reproductive
process of snails and the Crimean War. Friday
is the day you are going to spend the rest of the
afternoon contemplating your embarrassing love
for One Direction and filling up virtual shopping
carts youre totally not going to cash out on,
and you are not going to be judged for it.
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What you can do at Friday night

• Cooking a recipe more complicated than microwave
  lunch and pizza order.
• Were essentially bombarded, by Pinterest and The
  Food Network, notably, with endless ideas for
  food that we stare at for five minutes before
  promptly erasing it from our collective memory.
  Ill never make that, we think, That has more
  than three ingredients. But Friday is the day in
  which you can stay up as late as you want, trying
  all different combinations of sauces and meats
  that make you temporarily feel like some kind of
  bloated, power-crazed royalty. You can feel free
  to nurture a healthy food baby and even share in
  the cooking process with other people, so long as
  they dont set your kitchen on fire. (Keep the
  drunker ones on table-setting duty or something.)
  The thing about making a good dinner from scratch
  is that, aside from it being delicious and a fun
  change of pace, you also feel almost Bear
  Grylls-esque at the end of it, as though you
  could make do with anything, if provided the
  proper spatula.

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Having a delicious, overpriced, new for you
drink.

• Its Friday, its time to start the weekend at
  the crack of five with one of those novelty
  cocktails that come in fishbowl-sized wine
  glasses that middle-aged women like giggling
  about while on cruises. Been dying to try that
  new craft beer? Throw caution to the wind and
  unwind with a few of them. There are few things
  more fulfilling than a slight buzz and an entire
  weekend in front of you with a few friends. Sit,
  sunglasses applied firmly to the face, on a
  terrace at happy hour, looking smug and vaguely
  hostile towards the people who are staring at you
  for thoroughly enjoying the end of your work
  week. Fridays are your days, and if we were meant
  to spend our whole lives caring whether or not
  people thought we were partying too much, we
  would have stayed in our parents houses.
• Tiered from all these but dont want to stay at
  home? Find something new for you, such as pub
  crawls, roof parties, thematic parties etc.

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Getting a number.

• Im not sure I know what Saturdays and Sundays
  are for, but Friday nights are for going out and
  prowling like youre trying to wipe out some kind
  of endangered species. And how many times do we
  see the beautiful Friday-evening guys still in
  their suits, or the girls laughing coquettishly
  in impenetrable, iron-clad groups of four or
  five, and deeply regret not pursuing that
  conversation with the one who was totally making
  eyes at us? Much better to put yourself out there
  and get turned down who cares? Do a shot or
  something with your friends and laugh it off
  than to go home and berate yourself for being
  such a timid loser. Fridays are the night for
  making poorly-informed, but often incredibly
  fruitful decisions. Tonight is the night to go
  home with a number but dont you dare do it
  quoting that song. You know the one Im talking
  about. 

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Alone on a Friday Night?

• Sure, youd rather be spending the evening with
  people, but unless youre due one good night of
  takeout and tv watching (limit 1 per month), put
  down the egg rolls and the remote control,
  consider these options, and dang it, live a
  little! Or, at least do some things youve not
  made time for.
• Go on a date with yourself Enjoy an evening
  with yourself, appreciate the time you can stay
  alone with your own thoughts.
• Call/Hang out with family-Some of us dont have
  an issue with keeping up with dear old Mom and
  Dad. Others of us have to be held at gunpoint.
  Consider this your threat. Call your mom. Just
  because. And while youre at it, call your
  grandparents, siblings, and your aunts and
  uncles. Or, even better, go see a family member.
  Of course they drive you crazy, but you dont
  have anywhere else to be tonight, so you can deal
  with your emotional upheaval later in the privacy
  of your own home.

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Alone on a Friday Night?

• Hang out with your married friends - Some of us
  are bad about losing touch with our friends once
  they get married. Sure, they have a lot of
  obligationsa spouse, kids, workbut some of them
  would really love to see us more and would enjoy
  meeting us for dessert or coffee after they help
  their spouse put the kids to bed.
• Browse a bookstore and dont buy anything (or do)
  - Get a bunch of magazines you never have time to
  read or Steve Jobs biography that you have no
  intention of buying or conduct research in the
  travel section for your summer vacation. Take a
  stack of books to a table in the coffee shop and
  enjoy having time to do something youve been
  putting off for a while. Theres no coffee shop
  in your bookstore? Good for you for not
  contributing to the Monster, but that also means
  youll need to support a small business and buy
  something.

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Resources

• Thought Catalog See More
• Harlem Pub Crawl See More