games from Katya

Three names I go by:
1. Val
2. Mama
3. Bridget

Three screen names I've had:
1. vcs2
2. Si_moo
3. BabelBabe

Three physical things I like about myself:
1. My eyes
2. My wrists
3. My feet

Three physical things I don't like about myself:
1. My breasts
2. My hips
3. My butt

Three parts of my heritage:
1. Ukrainian
2. Lithuanian
3.

Three things I am wearing right now:
1. a black sleeveless t-shirt
2. a green skirt
3. black Jockey underwear

Three favorite bands/musical artists :
1. Dar Williams
2. Chris Smither
3. Radiohead

Three favorite songs:
1. Iowa – Dar Williams
2. Send Me on My Way – Rusted Root
3. Corner of the Sky – from “Pippin”

Three things I want in a relationship:
1. Conversation
2. Laughter
3. Comfort

Two truths and a lie:
1. I have two brothers, one younger, one older.
2. My parents are both dead.
3. I adore my mother-in-law.

Three physical things about the preferred sex that appeal to you:
1. Big knobbly bony capable hands
2. Skinniness
3. Prominent cheekbones

Three favorite hobbies:
1. Reading
2. Quilting
3. Running

Three things I want to do badly right now :
1. Go swimming
2. Read
3. Have someone else feed, bathe, and put my kids to bed

Three things that scare me:
1. Any of my kids dying
2. Heights (me wanting to jump)
3. Knowing I am going to die (If I got hit by a bus and died instantaneously, that’d be ok, but I don’t want to die a lingering death)

Three of my everyday essentials:
1. Tea
2. Email
3. Books

Three Careers you have considered or are considering :
1. English professor
2. Forensic pathologist
3. Set designer

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. Istanbul/Turkey
2. Alaska
3. Prague

Three kids' names you like:
1. Benjamin
2. Abigail
3. Leslie

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Get a PhD in English lit
2. Learn to rock climb
3. Go on a months-long vacation/sabbatical by myself, maybe to the shore

Three ways I am stereotypically a boy:
1. I curse a lot
2. I do nothing with my hair other than wash it
3. I tend to sit with one leg crossed across the other knee rather than demurely at the knees.

Three ways I am stereotypically a girl:
1. I do not leave the house without moisturizer or perfume
2. I love gossip
3. I worry about my weight

Three celeb crushes :
1. John Cusack
2. Alan Rickman
3. Andrew McCarthy

Three people I am tagging:
1. Gina
2. Peg
3. Carolyn

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Katya’s questions from the Interactive Internet Question Game

1.If the Slavic goddess of fate showed up on your doorstep, would she be Dolya, the kind one, or Nedolya, the annoyed one? Why?
It would definitely be Nedolya the annoyed one because that’s just the way my luck runs. My brothers and I have a long-standing family joke about the “Matus luck” and my husband swears the only reason I changed my name when I got married was to try to fool the Matus dark cloud from following me.

2. What is the weirdest reference question you've gotten? How did you find the answer?
Wow, this is a toughie. I get some very odd reference questions from our crank callers, but I have to think on this a bit. Ummm…I think the weirdest to date – and I haven’t been a ref librarian that long so that might account for the tameness of this one – was the man who called looking for a doctor’s credentials. He had a a name and a state but that was it. So I searched the AMA website, and various physician directories; I thought maybe he meant Doctor like PhD so I searched a dissertation database and some faculty directories. No dice. So then I – finally! Duh! - thought to ask him how he had heard of this woman, and where he’d found her name. Answer: on a mailing from the A---- Psychic Institute of America. I assured him that her credentials were more than likely as fake as could be but I found the phone number of the A--- Institute and told him to call them and ask.

3. If you had a whole week to yourself and knew that the kids were taken care of, what would you do during that week?
Sleep, read, take lots of baths. Stay up late and sleep in. Call off sick from work. Eat ice cream sandwiches or pie for breakfast, and sushi for dinner, and whatever I want for snacks without having to hide whatI am eating or hearing anyone say Yuck or Gimme some! Finish the baby quilt I am working on. Go out for lunch and maybe an afternoon movie (Is there anything more decadent than a matinee movie?) Go sit in my favorite coffee shop for an hour to read the newspaper in the mornings, with a pot of Earl Grey tea or an iced mocha. Go swimming. Revel in the silence.

4. When you were a kid if you had a choice between reading and playing sports, which one did you usually choose?
Always reading. My husband said just this morning, “You know, last week you said something like, ‘I’d rather read than do anything else.’ And it was like a light bulb came on – of course! Why did I never realize that?” I don’t know, Dan, you’ve been married to me for 10 years, you’d think you’d have figured that one out by now!

5. Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka?
Gene Wilder. I am even afraid to see the Depp version (although I generally love Depp) because I don’t want it to sully the Wilder version.