Introduction

This blog is the online representative of my writing throughout the 1990s. Fortunately or unfortunately, I do not write like this anymore. I intended to publish the zaniest bits in a book entitled Utter Weirdness. There will be no such book written by the current me.


For a good portion of the nineties, I was socially awkward--weird. I guess the term "weird" is still somewhat of a compliment for teenagers. Instead of interacting with people awkwardly, I chose to compose weird pieces of writing. However, it's not the same writing as one would find in Weird Tales. Writing, college, and my first teaching job helped me overcome my sense of being weird. The transition was kind of like this: shy guy to immature prankster to goofy reactionary to apparently less weird.


After a lot of self-reflection and analysis, I believe I was actually quite normal. I was just behind in social development, and I believe I'm somewhat in the "normal" range. I can be weird if I want to be, but I'm not constantly in a state of weirdness like I thought I was for the last decade of the 20th Century.


So here it is, the utterly weird writing of Jeremy, 1990-2000. If you prefer not to read in this random order, use the labels to read by genre or time period (high school, college, first teaching job).

Friday, July 23, 2010

Rare Phobias

Blepharophobia - fear of blinking, fear of one's own eyelids
Hypophobia - fear of things physically under or below oneself
Surphobia - fear of things physically above or over oneself
Aerophobia - fear of air
Lutophobia - fear of being clean
Biophobia - fear of life
Tactiphobia - fear of touching things
Vocaphobia - fear of talking, being talked to, and the human voice
Chromophobia - fear of colors
Somnaphobia - fear of sleeping and falling asleep
Obduphobia - fear of being passed
Saporphobia - fear of tasting
Locophobia - fear of moving or being moved
Affectuphobia - fear of emotions
Placiphobia - fear of things not moving
Resphobia - fear of inanimate objects
Cogniphobia - fear of thinking, fear of thoughts
Insaniphobia - fear of paranoia and madness
Miniphobia - fear of things smaller than oneself
Maxiphobia - fear of things larger than oneself
Cardiaphobia - fear of one's own pulse or heartbeat
Siccuphobia - fear of fluctuations in temperature
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