Kim Karalekas

I believe I recently mentioned the unusual phenomenon that continually seems to happen to me. Wherever I go in my travels, I run into someone I know in the most random places:

1. During a family trip to Disneyworld, of all people I ran into my best friend and her family at Epcot with no plans to see each other.

2. While in Europe, I spent a day in Venice and randomly ran into my high school choir director in front of St. Marks.

3. I was on a flight to Mexico City and I look to my left and who do I see but I friend I’ve gone to school with throughout high school!

4. This past May I was in NYC walking home on a random street about this exact topic – mid conversation and guess what? I run into two friends from high school who I haven’t seen in more that three years!

5. When I was moving into my building here in Portland a few weeks ago, I passed a girl on the elevator and we both did the double take, I know you from somewhere but I can’t put my finger on it look – we get to talking and turns out, we were friends in elementary school but the she moved and I didn’t see or talk to her since. Not only do we live in the same building but the same floor and we are actually neighbors!

6. Most recently – This past May at one of the One Club‘s One Shows in NYC, I met a group of men who were from ID Branding in Portland. We chatted for awhile about about branding, it’s future, how their agency applies these ideas to their work, etc. I actually found what they had to say quite intriguing (not to mention I was loving the LoveJoy Vodka table topper (not sure what to call it!) I had earlier found and photographed in the bathroom!)

Here’s the pic. – not the best quality, but it works!

Anyway, fast forward to this past Friday, the agency the CoLab interns visited was…ID Branding! Not only that, but the first guy from ID Branding to welcome us/talk with us about the agency was Mike Mirkil – one of the men I met at the One Show, and later that afternoon, the 2nd of  people we met that day, Doug Lowell was also someone I had met at the One Show this past May. Small world, huh?