Yep, it's finally here. I passed the (zoological) Master's Exams today. I really, REALLY didn't know how Fire and Alpine salamanders reproduce and I am ashamed like never X__X Yet still, though I would have kicked myself out of the exams...(or, well... give myself at least "3"), I still got "2 - very good"!

Now it's time for celebration!

*dances*

Here's a little something about the exam itself:
I was asked about human ectoparasites (kind of knew this), hagfishes (Myxini; I didn't know how they use their single nostrils to pump water into their branchiae), behaviorism, water mammals (where the hell dugongs and manatees live? BTW this was the first time ever I saw the whalebones. They are FURRY!! ^^), monogamy in primates (a question repeated many times....gets boring eventually) and finally the almost-fatal viviparity in amphibians. When we were late for about 10 minutes and some of the examiners started to complain because they also wanted to have a lunch today, the chairman asked me some final questions about evolution; What are the positives of sexual reproduction (I knew all the negatives... but a positive? O.o Maybe if I wasn't asexual I would have remembered the other way round...) and scenarios of speciation (I was dead from the amphibians already and I couldn't remember the terms- allopatry, sympatry etc. if my life depended on it. But when I was told the terms, I assigned them to the right scenarios. Brain can play hard sometimes XD).

Now it only takes few months till the degree ceremony and you may call me "Mgr. Akela Taka"!! :-D


And this is the whole story. Anyways, I hope that I will have more time for art this year. I would really love to finally return to the "real art", and instead of doing just other people's characters as trades or commissions, I will, once again, draw from my heart. I was so very inspired during past days... ^^