So today was the 10th anniversary of Glee, a TV show which originally ran from 2009 until 2015. However, I only help up with it until 2014, bailing about halfway through a very poor Season 5, and I didn't catch up when I heard the show was ending the following year.

However, this past week, I decided it was finally time to finish was, ultimately, a very formative show for me. It ties together disparate times in my life in a way very few media properties do, and I'm extremely happy I finally saw this show through to the end in honor of this milestone. I didn't start the show over from the beginning, but rather from Episode 14 of Season 5, a couple of episodes before I had stopped watching originally, and when the show had done a soft reset which made picking it up again from that point much less daunting and confusing.

Frankly, I didn't expect to have a big emotional reaction when I finally went back and finished this show. Though upon further reflection, it was inevitable I was going to have some pretty intense emotions about it, and I'm glad that - for the most part - they turned out to be good ones.

( I can't keep wasting my time with Glee. It hurts too much. )

I didn't finish any submissions for nordipalooza this year. I even went back and looked at some previous unused prompts but for some reason I've been hitting a wall. I think I need to take a break from writing the Nordics and at least try writing for some different Hetalia characters for a while.

Most of my shows either went on hiatus this past week or are going on hiatus this week, so I think I might try spending my lunch break sitting in a Starbucks or something and try to write 1000 words a day. I used to be able to write fic on the train and I might try taking a stab at that again too, especially since lately I've been wasting my time during my commute on time-killing apps and not even that Harry Potter one I'd been playing for a while.

The fests I'm interested in don't start until the Summer, so I think I'm gonna go back and finish some of the drabbles I've had collecting dust the last few years. There's a lot of them, and some of them are pretty decent and I'd like to get them done. Hell, I'd really love to finish Personal Chaos this year since I started writing that fic in 2011. Most of my drafts are Glee, but I'd also like to take a stab at writing for Star Wars since I've been really into that lately. Or maybe even Supernatural since that's ending this season.

I really miss the feeling of writing something for the sheer passion of it, but I'm starting to realize I need to make more of a concentrated effort to get that back.