Ever have a moment on the job when time seemed to stand still? What about a moment when it went too fast and there just wasn't enough time? Talk about one, or both.The first case I ever worked on the X-Files, time went backwards. I've dealt with alternate dimensions. Things that were supposed to be just dreams. Time is a much more fluid thing for ( Read more... )

I was at work on 9-11. Time stood still on that day until I got word of Claire’s death a few days later. I knew before they told me officially. Not only was she not answering her cell, but I could feel it ( Read more... )

Springboard: Tick-tock Tick-tock

Ever have a moment on the job when time seemed to stand still? What about a moment when it went too fast and there just wasn't enough time? Talk about one, or both.

This is not a requirement. As always, your muse may make a post about anything whenever they want. Just have fun ( Read more... )

If you weren't doing the job you're currently doing, where would you be? What would you be doing? Do you have any dreams for yourself that never came to pass? Talk about it or don't!

If I weren't a cop, I'd probably still be a CSI in the computer lab. Going crazy. Anti-social as ever, living in the little cave that is the Feds' CSU department... and ( Read more... )

If you weren't doing the job you're currently doing, where would you be? What would you be doing? Do you have any dreams for yourself that never came to pass? Talk about it or don't!Huh. I don't know. Might be fun to be a race car driver. Maybe have my own repair shop ( Read more... )

I'm still here. I've been preoccupied since my current project was put on hold.

Sometimes you just have to laugh. Ever break down and laugh on the job? Something make you smile when it really shouldn't have? Talk about a time when you just couldn't help yourself.Danny and I worked this case back in late February - some guy killed his wife and her boyfriend in their hotel room and tried to make it look like a double-suicide. He ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Ever break down and laugh on the job? Something make you smile when it really shouldn't have? Talk about a time when you just couldn't help yourself.In this job, especially a unit like Special Victims, you either laugh about something or you cry. I'm sure we have all seen truly horrifying things in this line of ( Read more... )

Springboard: Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Ever break down and laugh on the job? Something make you smile when it really shouldn't have? Talk about a time when you just couldn't help yourself.

As it happens, I have a very funny work related story about a clown, but O’Hara made me promise not to tell it anymore…

I'm curious. Many people in the profession we've all chosen to partake in believe that you can tell a truly good or evil person just by being in the same room with them. I used to work with one man named Doakes that subscribed to this belief. Is it a common one in our profession?