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May 9th, 2006
04:55 pm - I is for Iookie, that's good enough for me
Originally via artbroken. He gave me the letter 'I'. Here's 10 words beginning with the letter 'I', and what they mean to me.
intolerance - I'm quite happy to be intolerant of intolerance. I've actually had someone try to tell me that in calling them a bigot for their homophobia, I was demonstrating my own intolerance. So be it. (No, I don't particularly like those fundy Christian loons like the Catch The Fire freaks and their drumbeat of hate-the-muslims. either. I'm intolerant of most intolerance, really).
idealism - without the dream and the hope that tomorrow will be better, what's the point of continuing? You gotta have the hope. Even if it just results in the sweet sweet nectar of disappointment.
immature - you say childish, I say childlike. My email sig line has been "It's never too late for a happy childhood" for many, many years now. (That's a line from the great Bloom County, by the way).
incommunicado - I'm always fighting the internal fight over this, the temptation to just run and hide from the world. When things don't turn out as you hoped, there's that part of you that just wants to give up. Must not listen to that part of your brain.
interconnection - We're social creatures. Without the love of your friends, you'd not survive long as a functioning human being.
intelligence - because nothing's sexier than a good brain in the right person. Way, way more important than mere physical attributes. (For me, appearance is nice, but more important is presentation. If you're not going to make at least a bit of an effort, you're not going to appeal.) Above all, there must be smarts - without conversation, you have nothing.
irony - Both a shield from the world, and an excuse for fools to wear appalling clothing. Not understood outside Australia and Europe (see Morrisette, A.)
imp - like rascal, scallywag and other terms of that ilk, these are words that seem to only get used by elderly aunties these days. Pity. They're good words, and have a certain cheeky charm to them.
innuendo - flirting is still one of the most fun things you can do with your clothes on. And no, once the clothes are off, it's hard to refer to it as "flirting".
impeachment - the only way we're going to see the United States government stop fucking up the world. Impeach the fucking lot of them. The sooner, the better.
Only 10 words. Damn, it was hard cutting down the 11 I originally had - eventually, though " independence" got left behind, because I wasn't so happy with the words about it.
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If you'd like to play, leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. Then you post ten words beginning with that letter in your journal and explain why they're important enough to make the cut.
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