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Fun evening last night: Shobhit, Laney, and I all met up from different directions to have Happy Hour at
The Gemini Room on 11th off of Pike, where Laney has taken to going for coffee with other friends and really likes the atmosphere. Far more significantly, they have a Happy Hour menu with "bites" items so cheap—$5!—I'm actually concerned about them
staying in business. And the food is so good! Shobhit and I ordered the deviled eggs (there were three so we shared with Laney and we each had one); the French fries; and the fried ravioli—
all excellent. Laney and I could hardly get over the price for food that good, and the portions, while not gigantic, are more than adequate.
I was even impressed by the cocktails I had. Happy Hour has $2 off specialty cocktails, both those appeared to average around $16 regular price. A well drink, though? Also five bucks! I had three screw drivers (vodka & orange juice) by the end of the evening—two of which I paid for; after Shobhit decided to go home but Laney and I stayed for a bit, she bought me a third. I keep forgetting the brand of the vodka they used, but it was one I had never heard of, and was unusually smooth for a bottom-shelf vodka used for Happy Hour.
Anyway. I took the Monorail and then Light Rail and made better time than expected; I had said 5:15 and I was at the venu by 5:05, having walked from Capitol Hill Station. Shobhit walked from home, and caught up to me on the corner of Pike and 11th by about 5:10. Then, wanting to add to his steps for the day, we walked down Pike until we ran into Laney, about a block and a half from her apartment building. She's only a couple of blocks from there, after all.
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Shobhit didn't really rave about the food like Laney and I did, but he had no complaints either. The Gemini Room has a kind of lounge seating area in the back, with a couch she usually likes to sit at ut which was occupied. We took the corner booth seating that came to a V in the back corner, Shobhit sitting in a mobile chair on the other side of the small table.
We chatted about all sorts of stuff. Movies, TV, politics. Laney had to pivot after a while with Shobhit, because he has a tendency to speak argumentatively even when we're all agreeing on something. But, she still had a good time with him.
Shobhit was done after about ninety minutes, somewhere between that and two hours. He decided to go home. I might have, but Laney clearly wanted to keep hanging out, and so I did (and was happy to). I can't remember what all we talked about, but I think it was largely just more movies and TV. I texted her links to three different movies on streamers that she was really interested in. I still need to email her about a fourth that came to me this morning.
Laney and I finally left at around 8:45, so we were there a good three and a half hours. We were about to break and walk our separate ways when I got this text from Shobhit:
Do you have any plans to come home? Talk about wildly passive-aggressive. I didn't even respond. When I did get home, only minutes later, he behaved as though he hadn't even sent it.
I wanted to make some toast out of the delicious sliced kalamata bread we still had left from when Shobhit got it at Three Girls Bakery at Pike Place Market. Shobhit suggested we make ourselves grilled cheese sandwiches with sliced tomato instead, and I was all about this idea. Once again we made it in the cast iron skillet, the best utensil ever. All the food is better out of a cast iron skillet, it's amazing. These sandwiches were so good!
I sat in the living room with him for a bit while we ate, but it was close enough to 10:00 by then that I went to get ready for bed. To my surprise, Shobhit even came to bed at 10:00. He said he was falling asleep on the couch anyway.
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[posted 12:31pm]
