After months of evading the Risk Police I have been caught, and must admit my fanboyishness in thinking that a mediocre shooter like The Conduit could possibly score AA on Gamespot. To be quite honest, it doesn't do much that other shooters have already done. Medal of Honor Heroes 2 got an 8 on this site and had all the same features. Amazing controls and robust online. Unfortunately, The Conduit is too generic to have scored anymore. Lame level design and an average online experience shot the game down from greatness, meaning not even good Wii controls could save it. Shame too, but I've realized my mistake. I got owned on Nintendo Dream Risk.

Well it's been about 3 months since my last blog on GS so let's run down the list!

School:

School's going pretty well actually. I'm for once actually finishing a semester pretty strong. There's this girl that I tutor for Geometry, and I think I'm going to create a sheet with all the facts of the year on Saturday so she has an easier time studying for finals. She got the worst teacher ever so I gotta help somehow.

I gave recommendation sheets from my counselor to my Geometry and Biology teachers. Those two are my inspirations. Mr. Stormont taught me that life is something to look at and have fun with, while Mrs. Tieman inspired me to apply myself into mathematics, and has showed me what kind of teacher I want to be when I'm older: A dedicated one.

In my speech class we had a little bit of an emergency when another english teacher burst into our classroom during practice, yelling "THE END IS NEAR" throwing paper plates and napkins. He had a broom and I was right by my teacher's desk at the time when he ran up to her, he was wearing a hat, so I thought I'd have to fight for my teacher's life. Thankfully I was frozen! . He went up to her desk and stole her tissue box. He returned it on Monday though. Definitely one of the highlights of school!

I'm receiving an award in front of the whole school tomorrow, which is nerve wracking :S

Hobbies:

I'm 95 pages into Elementura 1. Which is awesome! This summer I'm gonna finish up this thing on GS and do some major editing every night and maybe have a finished and completely different product by the end of summer! After that I'll do the same thing with book 2.

Bowling's been suspended on my list for a while. My friend's were being **** while we went, and my Wednesdays have been pretty busy for the past few weeks.

Gaming's going okay. I'm trying to get into Animal Crossing, and I want to bring the Wii downstairs into the living room so my family can play. On my Xbox360 I'm playing Mass Effect, and the PC is with Toribash. My dad's thinking of doing an upgrade so i can consider playing some old games on it

I'm tutoring my sisters this summer as well. I also got a job at Tropical Sno. I haven't heard back or anything about scheduling or what-not yet though I definitely have the job though.

Alright, let's get cracking here -

School:

I'm pretty cool with two of my new teachers, neutral with one, and the other one can go to hell for all I care because of how she runs the class and expects us to be 100% on top of everything. Starting Tuesday, I've gotten about 50 letters from assorted colleges - GOOD colleges too! I did get an 82% on my latest Chemistry test that I thought I did awesome on This is the first time my grade has dropped below a 90 in any class all year, albeit by .08 percent. All the new work is stressing me though, guess that's to be expected, I wore my glasses to school for the first time in two years.

Friends:

I think I finally found that one link that connects me and my friends into an actual group - bowling. I'm getting better and ever since I started redoing my technique three weeks ago, I'm on the road to doing great. Outside of that, I've got two good groups of friends, one of which I'm hanging out with for the dance next week, which I'm nervous about, because no one's said anything about plans, and I need plans.

Games:

I finished Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, replayed Fallout 3, and played the hell out of L4D. I did not finish Rune Factory 2 or Animal Crossing or FF4 . I did however start playing Pokemon Gold which led me to begin playing *drum roll* Pokemon Shiny Gold - for the GBA. It's so fun and it's like playing Gold and Silver all over, too bad it's only a beta that I got. I also picked up Fire Emblem which I will replay the hell out of until I have the game down to a formula like I do Radiant Dawn. I really want to pick up Phantasy Star 0 when it comes out, but I also want Pokemon Platinum (damn Nintendo and their milkage) - which means that I'd only have one game that I could get for the year. That's fine because I'm not anticipating anything else this year (only DS WOW) but, I dunno know, just incase, you know, something GOOD comes out.

Book:

I'll admit I've been lazy - though the ideas are still flowing, and as long as those stay fresh, so does the concept and it improves things. I do want to show a profile I created for one of the more prominent characters in the series.

Draca -

Age: 15, 18 and then 21

Appearance: Average height, slim; long, wavy hair; fierce black eyes; wears dark colors (but not to the point of fulfilling the anime emo stereotype).

Weapon of Choice: Dual pistols, then when she's older, dual shotguns. Weilds the dual element of light and darkness.

Affiliations: Jace, Hunter, Luna, and Vincent - Primary heroes, good friends.

Jace, Hunter, Serenade, Jarvis, Grant, Drake, Bruno, Claus, Courtney and Devon - Elemental Guardians of the Lotus.

Profile: Draca essentially starts out the plot with the desire to find her uncles, who are essentially like brothers to her. This action causes her and Jace to leave the safety of their home, Rosefire, and lure out the villains of The White Raven Society. She uses the power light and darkness to protect her friends and deliver Jace and co. safely to the final battle where Vega must be defeated.

After several more escapades, she discovers that her uncles, Remus and Romulus have become "entrepreneurs" in that they now are leaders of their own town that devotes days to studying and nights to using that knowledge to create bigger parties.

She later leads a group of rebels that fled Rosefire (when she's 1 along with Remus, Hunter, his brother Claus, and Luna. She then teams up with Vincent to bring down the Blues Nation and The White Raven Society. She ends up teaming up with an assassin named Sigfried and the hero Vincent to destroy the love of her life, and the "King" of Rosefire, Jerry. Towards the end of the war, a Society member whom Luna is closely related with engages Draca in a battle that almost ends the war.

Overall I'd describe Draca as the "girl" in the group, but because of family tree matters, she never really finds true love. She's the dedicated and responsible one who will take charge to do what's best no matter what happens to her. A character who originally started out as an "emo" of sorts who was the bad girl, has really evolved into a really solid, likable person.