I am the king of procrastination. I go out of my way to put off homework, studying, waking up in time for class, bathing, getting money I owe the Mafia — you get the idea. So “holidays” like Reading Day are wasted on me. I have actually made it a time-honored tradition to not study anything [...]

Editor’s note: Look for Holly’s feature next week about local craft brewing Beer: my best friend and worst enemy. Like the many incoming students who find themselves overwhelmed by all of the tasty meal plan selections, I began to pack on the pounds almost immediately. There was no one to stop me from daily quesadillas [...]

Julia Carpenter When you’re 16 in a square on St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah, life gets a little scary around 3 p.m., when reality shifts slowly back into focus and the idea that this time could be the time becomes ever more possible. You get there so early — earlier every year. When you were [...]

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Other possibly untrue aphorisms: mixing drinks is unwise; drinking depresses and otherwise limits your life. One more: weekdays downtown are no fun. After a Tuesday of classes and meetings and projects I really needed to unwind, so I hopped in a car with my [...]

After examining the male mind and libido last week, it seemed only natural to consider a few commonalities among females. A night of people watching — drinks in hand — drew our attention to a few downtown scenarios that tend to happen on the regs.   Scenario One: Buying drinks   Jason: As I stood [...]

A wise teacher once said that stereotypes aren’t necessarily untrue, but they are certainly incomplete pictures. So how much truth is behind the all-too-prevalent stereotype that all guys are just out to get laid? It’s obviously unfair to extend that assumption to all males in general, but downtown Athens is certainly a skeezier place than [...]

Editor’s note: It’s hard out there for a woman — or a man. In that spirit, a change: “Drunk diaries” is undergoing a retooling, including men and women socially-lubricated together. And so this, the first of that series, that has resident diarist Holly Young become one shadowy half of the background to Jason Flynn’s date-night. [...]