[links]

Look! Random writing prompt in moosemonster's journal!

Also, an amusing card in baratron's journal.

[links]

Look! Random writing prompt in moosemonster's journal!

Also, an amusing card in baratron's journal.

[weather.today]

Today's weather is wonderful.

And the light levels are starting to feel like they might be thinking about being helpful for me again (which, considering it's halfway through Feb, makes sense).

Snow melty! (Also, wet ice, but hey!)

Food now.

[weather.today]

Today's weather is wonderful.

And the light levels are starting to feel like they might be thinking about being helpful for me again (which, considering it's halfway through Feb, makes sense).

Snow melty! (Also, wet ice, but hey!)

Food now.

[lyrics]

Bit of lyric that keeps getting stuck in my head:

"And daylight savings never saved me anything
And Thanksgiving time never gave me anything
And autumn's peak only made me wish for spring
And the daylight, and the wealth of time"
-Eddie From Ohio - Bonny Brook

Word.

[lyrics]

Bit of lyric that keeps getting stuck in my head:

"And daylight savings never saved me anything
And Thanksgiving time never gave me anything
And autumn's peak only made me wish for spring
And the daylight, and the wealth of time"
-Eddie From Ohio - Bonny Brook

Word.

[link.glbt.politics]

Seen on multiple people's journals:

Government funders within the Bush Administration at SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) notified the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) that SAMHSA Administrator, Charles Curie, would not be allowed to attend a SPRC regional conference on suicide prevention if conference organizers went forward with a workshop title that included the words "gay", "lesbian", "bisexual", and "transgender".

[link.glbt.politics]

Seen on multiple people's journals:

Government funders within the Bush Administration at SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) notified the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) that SAMHSA Administrator, Charles Curie, would not be allowed to attend a SPRC regional conference on suicide prevention if conference organizers went forward with a workshop title that included the words "gay", "lesbian", "bisexual", and "transgender".

[link.politics]

In noelfigart, this just makes me so very, very tired. (The first link, I mean)

[link.politics]

In noelfigart, this just makes me so very, very tired. (The first link, I mean)

[moving.North of Boston.query]

This isn't going to be until summertime, but I'm starting the process of investigating having to move due to the probability that my current living situation will (continue to) be too stressful as far as parking.

I have an additional constraint on where I can live than I did the last time I moved, because my roommate has no car. So, my question is this:

In addition to searching on rent.com, apartments.com, and apartmentguide.com - which are all appearing to be mostly apartment complexes - and checking newspaper classifieds (which are mostly online, yay!), where else would y'all suggest I look?

craigslist is useless for someone not actually _in_ Greater Boston, which I am not and do not want to be, partly because of the commute to work, and partly because I don't want to require a roommate in order to continue living there. The 'city' thing may not be something I can avoid while still being near an MBTA stop, so that's less of a factor. (ie, Lowell is an option)

Having a cat may or may not be more of a constraint than being near the T, but I'm not sure. It's not negotiable, though, any more than my needing a parking spot is.

[edit: Ok... perhaps I _am_ willing to consider places which are on subway lines, instead of commuter rail lines. If current roommate can commit to being able to afford to room with me while on one of the various northern bits of subway, the having to have a roommate financially argument won't actually matter anymore. And if I'm considering the possibility of Lowell or Lawrence... Hmm. I'm not at all certain about this, but I might just be willing to consider the Boston area. But I need to be 40 minutes drive or less from Westford. And I need to wait until ayalanya has a better sense of her finances...]

[moving.North of Boston.query]

This isn't going to be until summertime, but I'm starting the process of investigating having to move due to the probability that my current living situation will (continue to) be too stressful as far as parking.

I have an additional constraint on where I can live than I did the last time I moved, because my roommate has no car. So, my question is this:

In addition to searching on rent.com, apartments.com, and apartmentguide.com - which are all appearing to be mostly apartment complexes - and checking newspaper classifieds (which are mostly online, yay!), where else would y'all suggest I look?

craigslist is useless for someone not actually _in_ Greater Boston, which I am not and do not want to be, partly because of the commute to work, and partly because I don't want to require a roommate in order to continue living there. The 'city' thing may not be something I can avoid while still being near an MBTA stop, so that's less of a factor. (ie, Lowell is an option)

Having a cat may or may not be more of a constraint than being near the T, but I'm not sure. It's not negotiable, though, any more than my needing a parking spot is.

[edit: Ok... perhaps I _am_ willing to consider places which are on subway lines, instead of commuter rail lines. If current roommate can commit to being able to afford to room with me while on one of the various northern bits of subway, the having to have a roommate financially argument won't actually matter anymore. And if I'm considering the possibility of Lowell or Lawrence... Hmm. I'm not at all certain about this, but I might just be willing to consider the Boston area. But I need to be 40 minutes drive or less from Westford. And I need to wait until ayalanya has a better sense of her finances...]