Askew

[Leanne]

Billy, many thanks.

I had to get rid of "fangs" when Ray mentioned Twilight ... anything fanglike has been appropriated by the teenies these days!

I don't think of sleeve as something that just goes over an arm. It's something that fits closely, like the sleeve of a record, or a sleeve in an engine. The cloth case I keep my iPod in is a sleeve (in my head at least).

Unfortunately, the answer to all your "is this needed?" queries is, at least at the moment, yes.

Thanks for taking a look.

---

I don't get how someone can leave footprints with YOUR shoes

Todd pretty much nailed the meaning there. You've heard "walk a mile in my shoes"? Well, there are people who will take your experiences out of context, or your words, and superimpose them on their own so that they are certain they know exactly what you mean, but you'd never have thought of their interpretation. To most people, that discrepancy is ok and can be lived with, but to some it's inconceivable that their ideas don't match up with everyone else's. Those are the people who do the most damage, in my opinion.

I don't know the intent here, but it makes me think of the old 'does this dress make me look fat?' question.

There might be an element of that as well . But on the whole, it's more like these are my faults and scars, if you try healing them you'll destroy me.

I hear a lot of eyes being scaled. Is there another way to say it? And does it need to be scaled AND dark?

If it's scaled at all, then I'd say it needs scaled AND dark -- but I'll think on the scaled.

Thanks Mark