Warning: this entry is nothing but Pokémon.
So in not long it will be midnight and break will be officially over.
Things I did: I read a couple books, I watched a whole bunch of episodes of Pokémon, and... I acquired, played, and completed Pokémon Pearl version. By completed I mean I beat the Pokémon League champion, finished the plot, got the credits. I'm two (TWO!) pokémon away from filling the regional pokédex, at which point many awesome things will happen; of the two, one I can go see any time (but it'll be a real pain to capture), the other I have to wait until Friday.
...I was a little overconfident going into the Elite Four. I only brought, like, 35 potions and 15 revives. I ended up using everything but one potion and about four revives by the time I was done, which was only possible because I repeated one of them (I won, but it was a true pyrrhic victory; I reloaded and tried again and did much better). I am very, very glad my roommate hasn't come back yet (...where is he, I wonder?) because I was seriously yelling out attacks out loud, encouraging my pokémon, apologizing to them when I made mistakes... I'm sure if anyone had been watching it would have been very sad. But those were some really hard battles... when I was done, I had one pokémon at lvl. 55, four at 54, and one at 12. (Yes, twelve, that was not a typo.) Total play time as recorded in the hall of fame: 46:55... very close to 48 hours. Considering I started around one p.m. on Thursday, that's more than half total time playing. When I wasn't playing, I was eating, sleeping, or reading articles on Bulbapedia (which is awesome).
In other Pokémon news (are you even still reading?) after getting to episode 50 of the show, I got impatient and skipped ahead to the last two of the first series--oh, if you don't know, and you probably don't unless I've already explained it to you, the show as a whole can be broken up into three series (the original one with no specific name, Advanced Generation, and Diamond and Pearl (how creative)) because for whatever reason they decided to do that... and in America (not Japan) the series are further broken into seasons, but these aren't seasons like you think of normal seasons of a television show; season one is 81 episodes long, season two is 35, three is 41... after a while they settled to around 50ish each. The first series comprises the first five seasons, the second the next four, and the third is current.
ANYWAY. I got impatient and went to the end of season five... to the episode when Ash, Misty, and Brock all say goodbye to each other, which was actually really sad even though I skipped five years of shared adventure and character development. Then I watched the first episodes of the second series to get a feel for the new characters and to be amused at how Ash got to watch a new trainer make the same mistakes he made when he started, and then I skipped ahead again to the end of the ninth season to see how Ash and the new characters say goodbye (reeling at the voice-actor change that happened in the middle of season nine; it's a whole big thing) and then started the third series... I like the new(est) girl better than the middle one... it also helps that out of everyone, hers is the only voice that doesn't sound wrong (see above re: voice casting change) simply by virtue of not existing before and thus it being her first one. ...Yeah.
Um... I could keep going, and I probably will later, but that'll be some other night, and I'll put it behind a cut, I promise. I just wanted to make some mention of why I've been absent from the world the last few days. Like anyone noticed.