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What was the mascot of your high school?

We are the are the Pirates. Never really understood that, being MILES from the nearest "pirate-able" body of water, but a very cool mascot. The 'rifles' in marching squad used swords instead and got to wear extremely cute outfits (I was a flute-player, so wore a band uniform...not cute).

You've been given a round the world trip, but you must pick your itinerary alphabetically. Where do you go first, second, third, etc.?

Look out...
Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Djibouti (because I want to say I've been there), Egypt, England, Finland, a long stay in Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, a long stay in Italy, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Romania, Russia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, a long stay in Scotland, Senegal, Sierra Leone (as long as they aren't fighting), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Zimbabwe.
And then I'd need a year to recover.

What is the stupidest thing you ever stood in line for?

Groceries.
I hate standing in lines and will avoid them in any way possible. This is part of my reason for disliking all-things-Disney, and amusement parks as a whole.

I'm having a dinner party at my house and you are all invited. You'll need to bring three things: a dish, a bottle of wine, and a guest. What, and who, will you bring?

I'll bring either home-made bread or 7-layer bars (for dessert), a bottle of Gewürztraminer, and Beast.

If you could take one day of the week and rename it, what what would it be?

Tuesday should become Useless-I-Never-Get-Anything-Done Day.

Do you visit each person that visits your blog? Do you comment back to visitors within your own comments? Do you ever e-mail replies? Do you check back on posts that you have commented on to see if you have received a reply? Do you ever take a blog entry idea from another's blog and not give them credit?

I try to visit everyone who visits me and respond somewhere in their blog or via email. I do check back on some blogs where I've left comments, and I have some of the comments from favorite blogs RSS-d so they come up in Bloglines. As for stealing content, I usually give credit, though occasionally when it's a 'regularly-scheduled meme' I assume you can find it over to the left in the blogroll.

Do you have any bad habits left over from your childhood?

The one I'll talk about is biting my nails/cuticles. :-)

If you could walk in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade holding any of those gigantic balloons, which one would you want to hold?

Dora the Explorer.

So, tell us, what book would you recommend to us all as a really good read? Go to my book blog; there are too many to recount here!