Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

There is an intersection between home and campus that literally has gas station at every corner. The NW corner has a Chevron, NE an ARCO, SE a Shell, and SW a BP. It baffles my economic mind how something like that could possibly function. The intersection is near the freeway, but not necessarily close (you can't see it from the freeway), and while it's busy, I don't think it's quite as busy as California and Stockdale, to pick one that most of my readers know.

Towards something completely unrelated, I think I'll start asking people to comment why they voted however they did on some of my polls. For this one I'm particularly interested, because I just can't decide between two of them in particular, but there's also a third one wanting to creep into consideration the more I contemplate it. I'd vote for Tom because he's not afraid to get up there and duke it out with the aliens when that's called for, but is that really a responsible thing for the President to do? Then there's Andy who I just plain like, but he seems like a push-over for much of the movie, and only steps up to the plate at the very end of the movie (but who can blame a guy for not slinging mud back)? Finally, trying to catch up to these guys, is Dave, who isn't really a President, but manages to make the job look easy, and for whom I would definitely vote for in a city council election.

And Chris, I don't want to hear about why I should vote for Merkin, I just threw him in the poll because four is a better number than three.

In other news, my grandma (well, step-) is having a 70th birthday on March 1st, so I will most likely be home that weekend, if anybody cares. Of course, it's right smack dab in the middle of midterms (have a test on the Wednesday and Friday before, and the Monday after), so things could change, but really, why start preparing for tests now? I haven't decided yet if I want to take the train and read/study on the way to and fro, or drive and save some time and money. We'll see.