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So work is still occurring (I have a contract, as a paid member of staff, till december at present, so you know, it'll still be occurring for a little while ;)) - getting used to what I'm doing now (I changed areas, and overseers). But it's nice, getting up and going somewhere every day, even if I get a little o.O from all the human contact.

Profiling class - week one was interesting. I'm kinda amused by the fact that the two main references, are two of the books I got out the library (Holmes and Holmes for american - David Canter for British). It's getting it in my head, because reading the books I was like 'am I understanding this right?' and I've not done so bad. Other people in the class aren't bad (two who may get on my nerves a little - one of whom, considering her reasons for doing it, makes me want to head desk a bit).

Stuff learned:

Profiling = semi educated guessing.

Top down - profiling as done by the FBI in real life - where they base it off what they've learned from real life caught criminals - we had a mini discussion of the pros and cons of it. (Personal bias is a big part of it - it's meant to be objective, but because the interviewer goes in with an opinion, and uses their opinion with what they learned from the interview, it's actually more subjective).

Bottom up - profiling as done by David Canter aka the british way. This is where you work from everyone up to your suspect - working through stuff i.e. who would have a tow rope in their car? - taking anything that's at the scene and working out what type of person would have or do those things.

We did more on the US top down, next week we'll be doing the uk version ;) - we spent most of the time coming up with our victim (murder - unsurprisingly - and teacher was gleeful because we came up with points that make sense, unlike the random stuff he's had before). We're profiling our killer as we go. (You need a LOT of information to get a profile working. Not DNA and such, but other things that seem small, but aren't. Our bullet points of the crime actually raised more 'questions we need to know the answer to' then it produced 'things we know from this'. It's interesting to me, after writing case fic, and still working on coming up with more, because it's pretty much what I've been doing. I don't go in with the unsub in my head, I go in with the victim and crime in my head. I'm discovering the unsub along with the CM team - yeah, it's a weird ass way to write ;))

It;s made me want to watch Cracker even more as well (British show, from the 1990s about a profiler) - but it's getting hold of it. I may end up buying it....

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Shows this week - still need to watch Lost Girl and Haven - have watched Castle and Criminal Minds, and half of Terra Nova.

Castle is still working better for me than Criminal Minds (it's interesting, cos they both started from a similar stand point, from the situations of the last season, but I think Castle is working it more fluidly, it still feels like Castle. Criminal Minds, I'm kinda, well, this is the cue for an lj cut ;))

( spoilers lie beneath for Criminal Minds, 7x02 )

IN other news - I shall be away from LJ for three days - as it is Vampire Ball 2 weekend. No Eliza, sadly though :/ - still it should be fun and it'll be nice to see the lovely badfalcon in person again after a good while ;)

Hope you all have a good weekend :)