Camping, Good Times, and Sleep Debt

Got home yesterday from the lovely annual camping meet-up with my mates from university. We met in the astrophysics program at the University of Toronto, bonded strongly due to the insane demands of the course work, and are still good friends a million years later. The gathering is held on the 50 acres of farm property where a couple of friends moved to years ago, and now includes partners and kids ranging from 2 to 16. There is swimming and talking and eating, and things culminate on Saturday night with a full-blown jam session--with drums, guitars, bass, and a Japanese flute--fireworks, and our very own burning man.

I also ended up in wicked sleep debt, since we got hit with a huge thunderstorm in the night that kept us up between 3:30 and 5:30, and I'd only been sleeping fitfully before then. (The storm did blow down one friend's tent, but fortunately she had the house to run into.) I held it together for the drive home, but then did a credible zombie impression and collapsed as soon as we put Ros to bed. But this morning I feel great. It's amazing what eleven hours of sleep will do.

I'll just end with a goofy Caramilk commercial one of the group did recently. (Jeff really is a statistics prof. He was the boy genius of our group, a math major who was two years younger than anyone else and taking specialist physics courses because he thought they were fun.)

Fic: Ashes to Ashes, and Lovers and Other Strangers (UNCLE)

Here are the final two parts of the Das Vadanya series.

A word of warning on these two stories. They represent the greatest amount of missing time in the series. I've got three outlined and partially written stories that are meant to come between these, stories that take Illya and Napoleon through rather a lot, so the transition from one to the other might seem a bit abrupt. But hopefully they'll still work for you.

Ashes to Ashes (7121 words) by PR Zed
Fandom: Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Warning: Major Character Death
Summary: A loss in the UNCLE organization has both Illya and Napoleon contemplating the rift between them once again.


Lovers and Other Strangers (4206 words) by PR Zed
Fandom: Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Relationships: Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo
Summary: After one loss too many, Napoleon seeks out the one person who can help him.