Study Materials arrived Monday, Abyss home run
Posted November 25th, 2008 by
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On Monday, I received my Study materials for Religions of the Ancient World, and Globalisation: Australia and the Asia Pacific. The readings for Globalisation are like twice the size of those for Religions of the Anceint World, which alone was about a few centremetres thick. So from December on-ward I have a lot of reading to do. It’s probably not any less then usual, but this is the first set of subjects that I’ve had which gave me print readings. That should be an improvement though, my eyes will be thanking me as paper is a lot easier to read then an old bright CRT screen. I’m hoping to avoid reading onset blurriness.
I have two assignments due Monday, such an annoyance but Monday also marks the day I can say goodbye to these two subjects as well, assuming I get the assignments done in time anyway. They are 2000 words and 3500 words respectively. Ouch. 
I began watching Lucky Star, but I’ve ran out of dub episodes as they are not all released yet. I would continue with the subtitles, but once you’ve watched a series with one-set of voices, and then watch it with another set of voices, the voices seem not to fit the characters as you grow accustomed to the first set of voices. I was particularly surprised that they still used the honorifics in the English version. They also kept in such things as thank you for the food when the characters began eating. I’m loving the references to other series as well.
In a few days time, I’ll also be changing my Internet plan to a Bigpond Liberty 25GB 1.5mbit/256kbit connection. It’s expensive but I could do with the extra speed and data. As it stands, I only have 30megabytes left this month and I have three days to go. Other months have been worse.
SPOILERS FOR TALES OF THE ABYSS AHEAD
Tales of the Abyss has been fun, and I’m nearing the end. I still have a few more dungeons, and god-generals to defeat namely Sync the Tempest, Largo the Black Lion, and Legretta the Quick. I’ve already killed Arietta the Wild and Dist the Reaper. I probably have to kill Mohs, and the introduction seems to hint that I’ll have to fight Asch the Bloody. I assume I’ll have to kill Van again too.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Ahh, I will see you again in Religions of the Ancient World. I’ve already had a flick through the content, it should be a breeze… I’ve already done Myth in the Ancient World and the other two REL subjects and they seem to cover a lot of the same ground. What other subject are you doing? I’m missing the NED subjects, I had a shocker with subjects this SP, I can’t wait for it all to be over… (5.5 hours to go…. wahee!)
November 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I can’t wait either, but at this rate I’ll be here well into next week. Struggling with cyberanalytics and still have to write the better half of the assignment for Policy, Reg and Govt. The other subject I will be taking is PAC11 - Globalisation: The Asia Pacific and Australia. It has an exam.
Did you enjoy the the other REL subjects?
~ Chris
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Well, I’ve only done REL11 and 12, and they were both brilliant. And ouch to the exam
I’m up to subjects 19, 20 and 21 and have managed to get away with doing only two exams… there aren’t many for the NED/NET subjects though are there?
December 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Nope, none for the NET/NEDXX subjects.