The Belltower of Babel (dreamtime)

    I was back at university with S., on the last day of fall term. So it was bastard cold and the buses and trains were all running late and the floor of the Social Sciences lobby was awash in slush and salt and gravel from outside. And of course there'd been a mixup with my schedule so I was signed up for a 4th-year biochem class, which I wasn't aware of and therefore hadn't been attending, so I had to see the department head to get documentation that I was not actually a BCM student, had not attended a single session of the course, and thus had permission to drop after the drop deadline without academic penalty.  Cue standard bureaucratic bullshit on top of various department end-of-term / Xmas parties and nobody really wanting to get any work done.  In addition, the library (which was still in the former buildings) had now subsided to the point that the main administrative areas were in (unheated) subterranean caves.

    So I'm standing in a huge lineup with about a hundred other people, all clutching bedraggled bits of paperwork and blowing on their hands.  I'd actually acquired a coffee at some point, so that was nice.  But the line was still taking forever, and instead of the standard pylon-and-rope arrangement for managing queues, the line just snaked through a labyrinth of tunnels.

[LATER]

    Still at the university, except this was one of the multiple-origin areas that didn't really resemble any specific campus so much as a mashup of all of them.  I'd parked illegally somewhere and was hurrying to a (meeting / lecture?) in this massive, cavernous space like the hollow cast of a beehive, with a ramp spiraling up the interior and corridors leading off in all directions.  I checked my phone in a panic but couldn't read the time (you'd think this would have clued me in that it was a dream), and I was still dressed in my winter stuff, so heavy boots and multiple layers of clothing topped off with my big-ass cloak. And then this bell started going off, and it was so loud the floor was shaking, so I just ditched the cloak and started running like hell to get to wherever I was going before it stopped.