Did you cross one leg in front of the other and sort of rock? A lot of people do that unconsciously, and it gives the impression of nervousness or insecurity.

Or maybe it blocked their view of your undoubtedly fabulous shoes?

I think I tend to rock a bit if my feet hurt -- but I think that every group of comments that I've ever had on a class always has at least one person who hated something about it/me and one person that I can't understand what s/he's trying to tell me.

I can usually ignore the outside edges of the comments and pay attention to the good and bad of what most people have to say. Still, "bigot" was a new one and sort of threw me because there's something behind that choice that isn't there for someone who tells me I'm boring or confusing.

Yeah, that's ouchy, even if the person is smoking crack.

Which they are. Barry Bonds may not be the day-to-day story he is in the Bay, but he and his controversies are certainly general knowledge (some present company excepted, of course.)

Barry Bonds may not be the day-to-day story he is in the Bay, but he and his controversies are certainly general knowledge (some present company excepted, of course.)

Jon Stewart caps on Bonds all the damn time (he's recently added Paris Hilton to the capping roster, which just proves what a raging bigot he is).

I believe I've mentioned our more-or-less monthly Bataan Death March meeting here - each department gets up and does a review of what we've been doing for the past month, what we're doing for the next month, where we are financially ... it tends to go on all day.

Anyway, one person has threatened to do her presentation in interpretative dance. Another tends to wave her arms around a lot - we're not sure if she's going for interpretative dance, or semaphore (a la the Monty Python "Wuthering Heights").

Barry Bonds' divorce is too good an example to give up -- despite all the litigating celebrities find themselves tangled up in, very little of it goes to the appellate courts (which is where I need it to be for it to show up as an example in the research tools), and even less is a subject that I don't have to explain (i.e., 99.9% of people know what a divorce and a premarital agreement are). Besides, it's a damn good story.

So, phooey on that student. His/Her comment shall be politely ignored.

I think I'm missing something here, maybe because I don't follow baseball any more. What has Barry Bonds done or not done that puts him in the same league as Britney Spears?

Fred Pete, it's actually two different examples I use to illustrate two different points. My Britney example is a made-up story to illustrate the difference between fact and law at the trial level that allows me to use the punchline, "oops I did it again." The Barry Bonds example is his actual divorce case, that the appeals court ruled and issued an opinion on, that I follow through a number of research tools.

and someone called you abigot for that? sounds like you made a dry topic interesting.

Conclusion: People are weird.

Also, next time I plan to do something with corporate-lawyer friends, remind me how difficult it is to navigate the "you make bushels of money and I don't" waters when choosing hotels and activities.