Something random I realized today.

[apocalypsos]

I know it's a cliche, but I can seriously remember my mother asking me at some point or another during my childhood, "Well, if everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you?"

As someone stuck with the most popular girls's name of the late seventies in a grade where the percentage of girls who shared that name rose into the double digits, if I had had any balls whatsoever, I should have snapped back, "Gee, I don't know. If everybody else named their daughter Jennifer, would you?"

Granted, if I would have had balls, I wouldn't have had that problem, but still.

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[ktmobile.livejournal.com]

(For the people in my age group... every other person seems to be either a Jessica, an Amanda, or a Katie. Agh.)

Hi, my name's Katie and I... have a hideously common first name. Coupled with my hideously common last name, Morgan, this led me to the situation of going through grades 7-12 with another girl named Katie Morgan. Made for many funny mix-ups. I, the straight-A band geek, got called into the principal's office for skipping school while she, the blond, pregnant cheerleader got invited to join the National Honor Society. Hilarious.

My point? Well, I don't really have one, but I think my normal name made me into the freak I am today. I had to strive to hold people's interest, because a name like Katie Morgan just ain't gonna do it. Of course that doesn't explain freaks with freaky names. Or normal people with normal names. *shrug*

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

There is only one other girl on the planet with my name. I checked. Which you wouldn't think would be possible, considering the whole popularity of the name Jennifer.

And yet, here she is when I Google myself every once in a while, a Girl Scout amidst a bunch of snarky fanfic and porn references. I told my brother once that someone was using my name and joining the Girl Scouts and he didn't stop laughing for five munutes straight.

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[fyrdrakken]

As another Jennifer (and one who gave up responding to her given name in high school), I empathize. And as one who has a porn actress sharing her given and surname, I have to share the giggles as well.

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[finnystix.livejournal.com]

:) I think that's hilarious! It's nice having a unique name, but wow... there could be so much fun had in having the exact same name as someone else!

(Just out of curiosity, what instrument did you play in band? I'm a band geek myself... percussionist.)

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[ktmobile.livejournal.com]

:) I think that's hilarious! It's nice having a unique name, but wow... there could be so much fun had in having the exact same name as someone else!

It got pretty ridiculous, because aside from the name we were basically complete opposites.

(Just out of curiosity, what instrument did you play in band? I'm a band geek myself... percussionist.)

I play alto sax and trombone, though I "identify" more with the trombones. :) I am sure as a band geek you'll understand that. hehe.