Does anyone know where I can get me some high quality screencaps of any of Tina's appearances on SNL as Sarah Palin? I need a layout featuring her as Plain from now through to the election.

From here.

Australian Pensioners

The Rudd Government will deliver a $4.8 billion down payment to Australia's four million pensioners, carers and seniors - providing them with immediate financial help in the lead up to comprehensive reform of the pension system.

The $4 billion down payment for pensioners will be made available through a lump sum payment of $1,400 to single pensioners and $2,100 to pensioner couples, which will benefit:

* Age Pensioners;
* Disability Support Pensioners;
* Carer Payment recipients;
* Wife and Widow B Pensioners; Partner, Widow and Bereavement Allowees;
* Veterans' Affairs Service Pensioners;
* Veterans' Income Support Supplement recipients;
* Veterans Affairs Gold Card holders eligible for Seniors Concession Allowance;
* Those of age pension age who receive Parenting Payment, Special Benefit, or Austudy; and
* Eligible Self Funded Retirees holding a Commonwealth Senior Health Card (CSHC)

People who are receiving Carer Allowance will also receive $1,000 for each eligible person in their care.

The Government's Economic Security Strategy includes help for self-funded retirees who are eligible for a Commonwealth Senior Health Care Card.

Those who hold a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card or are Veterans Gold Card holders eligible for Seniors Concession Allowance will receive a payment of $1,400 if they are single or $2,100 to couples.

These pension payments will be made from 8 December 2008 and are intended to provide additional support in the 9 months between now and when long-term reforms are introduced from the beginning of the next financial year.

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OH PRAISE GOD, I'V BEEN STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET THIS YEAR, FOOD AND TRANSPORT COSTS HAVE BEEN RISING AND MY PENSION HAS ACTUALLY BEEN REDUCED (THOUGH I'M STILL WORKING TO GET MY FULL BENEFIT RESTORED) TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF THE FINANCIAL POSITION I'M IN:

PENSION IS $562.10/FORTNIGHT, I ALSO RECEIVE $110.20/FORTNIGHT RENT ASSISTANCE FOR A TOTAL OF $672.30/FORTNIGHT.

MY RENT IS $400.00/FORTNIGHT
MY PUBLIC TRANSPORT COSTS ARE $61.80 AT AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM/MONTH (THAT IS THE COST FOR ONE ZONE ONE MOTHLY CONCESSION METCARD AND ONE 10X2 HOUR ZONE TWO CONCESSION METCARD)
MY GROCERY COSTS ARE ROUGHLY (AT A MINIMUM) $150.00/FORTNIGHT

WHICH EQUALS $580.90/FORTNIGHT LEAVING ME WITH JUST $96.40/FORTNIGHT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE ONE NEEDS TO SURVIVE, THE ONLY WAY I'M GETTING BY RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE MY PARENTS PAY FOR MY INTERNET AND MY MOBILE PHONE AND I GET HEAVILY DISCOUNTED ELECTRICITY, GAS AND INSURANCE BECAUSE OF MY DISABILITY. I CONSTANTLY WORRY ABOUT GETTING SICK AND NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD ANTIBIOTICS, ABOUT HOW I'M GOING TO AFFORD FILM AND PROCESSING COSTS FOR MY PHOTOJOURNALISM COURSE NEXT YEAR, ABOUT HOW I'M GOING TO AFFORD TEXTBOOKS EACH SEMESTER, ABOUT EVERYTHING FINANCIAL AND IT SUCKS.

I KNOW I'M A LOT BETTER OFF THAN MOST PENSIONERS BUT $1400.00 IS LIKE ALL MY CHRISTMASES HAVE COME AT ONCE, IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE FOR ME. I'M GOING TO BANK $1000.00 OR IT AND KEEP THE REST TO BUY A EXTERNAL HD.

Krystal makes these amazing imikimi things. Really heartfelt graphics so I've been playing around with it today thinking of Rosalie.


Hmmm
I'm in a real Romeo and Juliet mood. Baz Luhrmann's version of course. I think I might watch it later and screencap it.

All I want to do is spend all my time online flailing over House, Tina on SNL, the upcoming season of 30 Rock and Doctor Who and catching up on my other fandoms, I haven't even seen any of this season of Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice or Mad Men yet and the last episode of Weeds I had the chance to watch is The Three Colors.

I feel so out of the loop with all my fandoms, I keep seeing stuff that needs to be flailed about but university is eating up all my time at the moment, I read six chapters of my sociology textbook yesterday and I have to read another three today before writing my essay (the essay is to be based only on information from the textbook which is lame, I actually like researching) then it is straight onto politics and and media studies.

Come November this journal will be filled with nothing but three month old squee as I get caught up on everything.

Not helping is the fact that both my hard drives are very nearly full which is limiting what I can download and keep until such time as I can get a nice big external.

Anyway, sociology textbooks are boring, post stuff to entertain me!

MY NEPHEW IS THE CUTEST BABY ALIVE.

THIS IS FACT.

Researchers have developed a robot which can tackle the chores, dance and show emotion.


I've been watching Battlestar Galactica lately - Usually spaceship sci-fi is soooo not my thing.  But it was highly rec'd  and I was enticed by the use of Greek mythology.  I managed to liberate the mini series and season 1 from ebay for pennies.  I'm now on season four and enjoying very much. I love my over reaching arc stuff, but I do like that there's a definite end point - though not so much that the end is very much nigh and I'll have to wait til January to watch with everyone else is rubbish.

Anyway.  Not the point of this post that I had to make, as I fall asleep, typing one handed.  The point is that when I read the blurb of this article on the homepage of yahoo, an unintentional strangled cry of 'No' escaped my throat.

Robots feeling emotion?  Intelligence?  Have we learned nothing from Terminator, BSG and the Matrix???  It's all there.  I'm not usually so paranoid, and I don't think a truly sentient mechanoid will be created in my lifetime but with steps such these and thoughts like "Hey, what harm could a dumb chore-doing machine be?" I can't help but see what lies ahead.

I'm starting a coalition for the Anti-Robot Future.  Unite!

Or maybe I just need to turn off BSG and get some sleep, Y/Y??



Damnit.  I can't see what damn keys I'm pressing and I've just made my firefox window full screen.  Freaking me out.  the robots did it. That should teach me for operating machinery while half passed-out and OD'd on sci-fi...

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So..another date, another disappointment. Car wouldn't start this morning, battery died, late to class. Angry can't get my SA tour vid to actually work. Finished three novels this past week. Dreading speech. Stoked to see Krysta on GG!

I'm here. Just been busy with work. More like frustrated with work. People are just pissing me off, and it's so anti-social there. It makes me miss all the people I used to work with. (I went to dinner with a designer I used to work with on Friday, and she got engaged this weekend!! YAY.) I actually did a lot of social things last week. Went to a networking event, where I did very little networking ha. Kind of just hung out with my friend from work. Then we went out again after work on Friday...did some shopping and then got a drink at the new Mandarin Oriental hotel. Very nice. Then I went to dinner with my friend from my old job. That's more than I've done all month ha.

Other than that, my DVR was 86% full this weekend, so I watched A LOT of stuff. Ha. It's like 10% full now. I watched hardcore. And really, not much is keeping me entertained this year. I really think the strike just got me out of the habit of being obsessed with these shows, and now I'm just like eh. We'll see if that changes.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL CALIFORNIA!! I can't believe it. So excited. Because, seriously, I need to get out of this town and get a break from work before I lose it.

I'm feeling kind of down lately, and I just need to get out of this funk before it gets really bad. I think I need to find a new therapist when I'm back from CA.

I tried to get caught up on my f-list. Sorry if I missed anything important! Let me know. Hope all is well with you guys.

LOL, I'm pretty sure I had the best conversation of my life the other day. It went something like this:

Lucas: What? Didn’t I spell voracious right or something?

Me: Voracious's fine. Vagrant doesn’t have an E on the end though...

Lucas: I wish you could see my p-e-t-u-l-a-n-t scowl right now. And by the way, I'm going with the French version today, d’accord? S'at alright with you Miss Merriam Webster?

Me: You should be nicer to me ass face.

Lucas: What would I get out of that deal?

Me: Something that begins with the letter S.

Lucas: Blowjob doesn't begin with the letter S - who's the bad speller now?

Me: Satianos, you satyr...and you're still an ass face.

Lucas: But an ass face that has one of the best blowjobs of his life in his future?

Me: Keep dreaming romeo.


Yeah, that was it, haha. And oh my dear lord, anyone that hasn't bought Amanda Palmer's CD needs to get their ass to a store pronto. It is beyond amazing and addicting and all those good things.

Californication, why aren't you on earlier, dammit!

PBS, the most liberal network in America (funded, incidentally, by your tax dollars) is running a poll concerning Sarah Palin. Their question is:

Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?
Yes 49%
No 49%
Not Sure 0%

Since PBS and the liberal media will widely publicize the results, AFA has decided to run a poll concerning the qualifications of Barack Obama.

Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to serve as President of the United States?
Yes 4,954
No 102,385
Not Sure 919

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I just did a major friends cut. If you got the cut, it was because of one or more of the following:

1. You don't update.
2. We don't have much in common.
3. I hate to say it, but your posts never interest me.

I'm really, truly sorry!!! I didn't like doing it, but it had to be done.

If you still want to be friends, then feel free to comment telling me why and I'll give it some thought.

We Feel Fine.

It looks all over the internet and blogs and finds posts/sentences with 'I feel' in it. It's a great little tool if you're looking for ideas, emotion-wise and such. You can narrow it down, too, by specific emotions, by sex, by age, weather, location, year. It's, in a word, awesome.

GUESS WHAT? My characters are actually not two-dimensional anymore. This is unprecedented.

Well said, Jamie!xD *vihog*

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Happy 41 birthday to my Kate. Thank you very much for everything. I love you so much <33 You&Addie are my person. Forever your fan.

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I survived my first day back in university. And that without any anxiety attacks or tears. Go me. So typical for uni, the day started with the first class not having taken place. So, 11 students sat around and wondered if the teacher was gonna show which he/she didn't. At least that gave us a chance to talk a bit, and I participated which was quite satisfying.

Then the horror class started, analysis I. The prof is actually very nice and kind of spent the two hours convincing us to not come to the lectures. There were close to 300 people in a much too tiny room!!!! Basically he told us that all we need to know is in a book which I had already picked up last week and that we should follow the tutorials and pretty much the same ones would be asked in the exams. So, I'm really trying to get acquainted with my past knowledge of analysis again.
And then the day concluded, it was only that one class. I have three tomorrow, 2 of them new ones, so we'll see how they'll go. At least a tiny bit of fear was taken from me.

Man, I have such a headache though, I blame my damn glasses which I usually never wear but now I have to in order to see clearly in the lectures. My eye is doing fine okay, I hope I get some of my lashes back, there were none left where barley-corn had been.

I'm off to watch True Blood now. And OMG, my tv show list for tomorrow is endless, a total of 8(!!!) shows that I hope to be watching tomorrow after uni. Damn, and I only get off at 4pm. Oh, how will I cope!? *lol*

ETA: Forgot to mention the weirdest part - when I got home, I had a message on the answering machine from my old workplace (my internship with Bavaria Film International) offering me a temp job with them. Me thinks they didn't get any applications for their internship, so they need additional help. I have to call them up tomorrow. I've been thinking about this old job a lot, it was a great workplace and I definitely need money, I'm just not sure what the hours would be, with uni and all. I shall ask them tomorrow.

While I was making dinner tonight (after my scary exam) my mum was watching Idol in the next room. I dont watch it but I overheard a guest performance tonight... couldnt believe who it was... and how hot she got! This is my song for the summer and the I think a lot of us can relate to the lyrics. And working with Flo Rida. Not bad at all. You go girl.