Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'm fascinated by body language in any event. Very much the people watcher, me. I always have been. I can recognize how someone moves or stands better than I do names or faces.

Thinking about it more, since I prepped the whole thing my mentioning how excited I was about these ideas but nervous about reading my own writing out loud. In the past, my T has had me do some deep breathing if I come in nervous or worked up. So I'm guessing that she was grounding herself and trying to focus through my own rambling to what I was getting at. I'll take it as a good thing. Again she responded very well and I could tell she was impressed that I had put so much thought into the subject.

So... here's another moment that just occurred to me. When we said good bye later she congratulated me again. After she handed me the receipt she put both hands deep into her jeans pocket. It struck me as a nervous, shy gesture—*maybe because I do that too when I'm feeling insecure around someone I like. It was kinda cute, even. Very human. I can appreciate this more than someone who would be more stiff shouldered.

I am probably reading into this but I got the sense that she might have wanted to hug me but was resisting it? But there's my transference, I know.