how to spend friday night

1. Friday Night
What to do on Friday night?

2. What you can do at Friday night
Man, it’s Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday, the only day of
the week fully sandwiched by pure happiness — there is no
reason to be productive today. You’ve 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 you’ll 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 you’re totally not
going to cash out on, and you are not going to be judged for it.

3. What you can do at Friday night
Cooking a recipe more complicated than microwave lunch and pizza
order.
We’re 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. “I’ll 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 don’t 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.

4. Having a delicious, overpriced, new for
you drink.
It’s Friday, it’s 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 don’t want to stay at home? Find something
new for you, such as pub crawls, roof parties, thematic parties etc.

5. Getting a number.
I’m not sure I know what Saturdays and Sundays are for, but Friday
nights are for going out and prowling like you’re 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 don’t you dare do it
quoting that song. You know the one I’m talking about.

6. Alone on a Friday Night?
Sure, you’d rather be spending the evening with people, but unless
you’re 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
you’ve 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 don’t 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 you’re 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 don’t have
anywhere else to be tonight, so you can deal with your emotional
upheaval later in the privacy of your own home.

7. 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
obligations–a spouse, kids, work–but 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 don’t 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
you’ve been putting off for a while. There’s no coffee shop in your
bookstore? Good for you for not contributing to the Monster, but
that also means you’ll need to support a small business and buy
something.

8. Resources
• Thought Catalog – See More
• Harlem Pub Crawl – See More