Apartment available immediately - Gorham Street

[fontia.livejournal.com]

Apartment available immediately on Gorham Street in Davis Square. $400/month, includes utilities! Just looking for some people I get along with, 20s-30s, great for students, or other thrifty individuals. Laid back, considerate, maybe a bit geeky, highly appreciative of wit and creativitah. The apartment is in an amazing location, and it's quite inexpensive. Also we have laundry in the basement!

email DelicateSencha@gmail.com for more information!

Promoting SOS

[rachelmello.livejournal.com]

Hi All,

After my last post about helping to promote Somerville Open Studios, a couple people asked if they could download the poster-graphics themselves to print and post at work.  Great Idea!  We were just a little behind in getting the files up, but they're on the website now.

If you want to help support and promote Somerville local artists, promotional graphics are  available at:
www.somervilleopenstudios.org/participate/resources.php. 

We have high-quality professionally printed versions of the poster available to anyone who can help go out and ask shop-owners, for permission to post in windows—just drop a line to maps@somervilleopenstudios.org—but if you want to print some on your own, and flier your bulletin board, friends, neighbors, classmates, etc., please do!

Hope to see you all during Open Studios... just 19 days away!

thanks everyone!

Party and Parking advice

[kalimba21.livejournal.com]

Hi All -

Not a rant, just looking for advice.

We live on a dead end street that is difficult to drive into because it is very narrow and difficult to turn around.
Our neighborhood used to be open parking, and there is plenty, but of course, this year it is different.

I talked to parking about purchasing 50 guest passes to accommodate my summer party. Essentially, registering my party. However, when I asked if a car owner could put their hazard lights on along with a sign on the dash saying that they were picking up a guest pass, I was told that this would not prevent a $50 ticket.

It takes about 3-4 minutes to walk from most of the neighborhood to the end of my dead end street, round trip.

Do you think, knowing that I will be having that many visitors, the city will be extra vigilant in patrolling my neighborhood that night? Has anyone experienced this?

Do you think it would be prudent for me to hire someone for the night to stand on a busy corner near my house to distribute the permits? Or perhaps I could tack them in an envelope onto a phone post near my house on the next street? Only I'm afraid the parking people, or someone else, may remove them?

Does anyone else have a practical idea around this issue? The traffic dept. suggested that I mail them to all my guests, but I feel that this is not practical as many people don't decide until the last minute if they are coming and it seems like a big hurdle on my end, especially since my invites go out the same week as the party.

I'd hate to cancel my annual party, but, covering everyone's tickets, which seems the right thing to do, could cost me several thousand dollars if parking enforcement is especially vigilant.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

[REPOST] 3 rooms for rent May 1st near Magoun Sq in 4br/2bath duplex $500/month no lease

[ratheripped.livejournal.com]

So after showing my apartment to countless strangers and having a group of people back out on me at the last minute - I still have 3 rooms opening up in my very lovely apartment on May 1st for 500 each. 

( More details after the CUT )

Inexpensive, good(?) pizza

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I have to get pizza for about 40 people later this week. I can get pizza from any of the typical places near Tufts (there are three pizza places right there) -- but I'm not so into the typically greasy slice. I was hoping for an alternative pie that was competitive in price ($12 for a large which will feed approx. 3-4 people). Zing is over the price range. Any other suggestions?