Pick Your Friday

No. 01 · easy one

Conversation Room

Music over speakers · right volume · well lit

No live band — the music comes off the speakers like any other restaurant. What it gets right is the volume: properly there, but never loud enough to make you repeat yourself.

conversation + tunes

No. 02 · quiet one

Olive

Cozy · quiet · good food

Warm, tucked-away, and the food is genuinely good. No soundtrack to compete with, which means we actually finish our sentences.

the one where we talk for three hours

No. 03 · double bill

Shelves, Then Sky High

Two stops · books first

• Oxford Bookstore
• →
• the walk
• →
• AM/PM
• or
• LMNOQ
• or
• Cosy Box

Start in the stacks and take as long as you want in there — I'm not rushing you out of a bookshop, especially when we have a reading slump monster to defeat together.

Then the good part: we walk to a sky-high venue from there, your hand in mine the whole way. AM/PM, LMNOQ, or Cosy Box — whichever we've talked ourselves into by the time we arrive.

you pick the book, I'm paying for it

No. 04 · double bill, indoors

Shelves, Then Sky High — at the mall

Same plan · under a roof · everything in one place

The same idea with a ceiling over it. Books first, drink after, no distance between the two. Pick a mall and it plans itself:

still holding your hand on the way over

No. 05 · your call

Soy Yum

Familiar ground · already approved

This one isn't my idea. It's been on your story highlights twice, which I noticed, and which I'm now openly admitting to.

yes, I was paying attention