I do enjoy it when my T understands something about me, even when it's really small. I was once kvetching about how another lawyer told one of my clients (who he was flirting with, hoping to get her business) that I was wrong about a federal filing deadline. It was the first time that I was filing this particular kind of case, but I had asked people I trusted and had already told her this. So I went mucking about looking for this small, hidden point in supreme court law and found enough indirect support by cobbling two cases plus already established understandings together. I wrote a 10 page brief on the issue as I'd analyzed it and then sent it to a leading lawyer in the area, who was nice enough to confirm what I believed. I was going on about I did all this work and it wasn't even anything that I charged her for. He just looked at me and said, "but I think you really enjoyed doing it." And he was exactly right, and I broke out into a big grin, that he just got that about me, seeing right through my kvetch to what was underneath.