A friend once told me he thought it was weird that people call me Kim Berry. I thought it was weird that he thought it was weird, considering that is my name. He was pointing out that people say both my first and last name when they are referring to me. I’d never noticed. I guess it is a little strange, especially when there are no other Kims around to differentiate between. Other friends call me kimberrykim. At first I wondered why they were throwing another kim on my name, but ok, whatever. It didn’t occur to me until later they were calling me by my e-mail address.
When I got my first yahoo account, I wanted the perfect address, something fun and catchy. I tried various combinations of cutesy e-mail addresses that people would appreciate and remember easily; only to be told repeatedly that someone had already stolen that address. Meanwhile, the system suggested four boring arrangements of my own name no one had yet claimed. I tried for hours to think of the perfect address. I finally gave up, accepted my fate, and became kimberrykim. I obviously didn’t know at the time that I was renaming myself, otherwise I would’ve kept hotchick88 like I planned. Anyway, I’ve grown to appreciate kimberrykim. It’s one of those names that only my real friends call me.
It occurred to me recently that I could officially be kimberrykim forever if I marry a Korean guy with the last name Kim. So, I did some research. Evidently there are 6.67 billion people in the world, 60% of which are Asian. Yay! However, Korea makes up only 1.1% of the world’s population. Bummer. But, I was not discouraged because that’s still 72 million people. I started shifting from idealist to realist to pessimist when I began considering all the factors.
There are:
72 million Korean people, but…
24 million people live in North Korea. I will probably never meet them. But,
48 million people live in South Korea, but only…
24 million are male, and only…
4.3 million are between the ages of 26-36, but only…
516,000 are single, of which only about…
154,800 are Christian, and about…
32,000 have the last name Kim!
That’s awesome!! But consider this…only about….
12,000 appreciate The Office, of which only about…
8,500 are totally into 24, of which only about….
4,700 like playing stupid games with friends, of which only about….
2,500 like camping, of which only about…
540 like waterskiing, of which only about…
4 would be ok with eating green beans and cereal for dinner most nights.
My chances of officially being kimberrykim forever are about .000000000078%.
Anyway, I wanted a cool name for my blog. I tried some other stuff, but nothing seemed right. I still like kimberrykim...but you can call me hotchick88 if you want.
