I've noticed that something tends to happen when I go to see the family in Seattle, Florida, or wherever. It's kind of a process. It goes like this:
I go back to Seattle, Florida, or wherever, to see my family.
Generally, this is because I'm on a break from school and therefore have a light or nonexistent work burden.
As a result, I enjoy vegging out in front of the TV occasionally. This is genuinely a treat for me, as I don't have a TV in my apartment, nor do I have any desire to get one.
When I watch TV, I tend to gravitate towards procedurals. I think this is because I only watch TV occasionally and therefore find it difficult to get into the shows that have multi-episode plotlines.
I have, over the years, had two favourite procedurals. One was the original CSI, but my interest has waned a bit since the departure of my two (soon three) favourite characters. My other favourite procedural is pretty much everyone's favourite procedural: Law & Order: SVU.
So when I go back to Seattle, Florida, or wherever, to see my family, I end up watching a lot of SVU.
And then, for a few days or weeks after returning to Bloomington, I have to fight the urge to change my computer desktop to the image below as I find myself nurturing a rather amusing and devoted fictional character crush on the NYPD's hottest (fake) detective:
Gaaaaaaaaah. So hot.