new semester, kind-of

Of the ~50 courses meeting the College of Engineering's "list B" requirement, there are exactly three that are offered this semester that are not full and for which I have met the prerequisites. So it looks like my "official" schedule for this semester consists of the following two classes:

• Engineering 190: Technical Communication (3 units)
• Celtic Studies 139: Modern Irish Literature (4 units)

The Celtic Studies course looks moderately cool. At least I see some recognizable names on the reading list. I have quite a list of other classes I'd like to take as well. Alas -- woe for being kicked out. )-:

babylon synthetic

I've moved up into my new room on the third floor. That is, it seems I've had the good fortune of being pulled into the largest room in the house, with balcony access, and with its own stairwell to the outside and to the roof. Up on the roof there is a pleasant area with a hammock and a view of the bay, with cacti and aloe in flowerboxes. I've set up my tent up there too -- initially just to dry it out, but now...

Now I see garden boxes, I see a clandestine garden, a new roofly paradise... I see giant fresnel solar lenses, I see phased array antennas, aimed heavenward. I see an empire. Since living on the bottom floor at 2018 I've pondered the multitudinous wonders realisable given such unimpeded roof access, and now it remains only to transform these wishful ponderings into some kind of reality. But the best is this -- from this newly achieved elevation I shall set to American skies, yes, the banner of Scania.

To the underliving denizens a rooftop pedestrian manifests himself as a minor earthquake -- But, it is no matter -- we're an ant colony now, this is the new surface level in the urban habitat, and the Wilde House Hobo Jungle has been born.