Inglês - Dia 80

"This would have been our thirteenth anniversary. Lace. Eleven is steel, twelve and thirteen are silk and lace? Feels like it should be  the other way around, that steel should come later. Or maybe once you've proven you've got the steel to keep a marriage going, then you get to enjoy the silk and lace. "
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Aman - (...) Aman includes the great realm of VALINOR, the home of the Valar or Angelic Powers who chose to enter the world in order to realize the vision of its Creator, Ilúvatar. No one, not even the Valar, knows the full extend of Aman.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, London, 1955; J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, London, 1977.

Inglês - Dia 79

"Baron Samedi, loa of the dead, stands at crossroads. Also loa of sex, known for his coarse appetites. Eros and Thanatos, all in one, dressed in tux and top hat. If you want to talk to him, bring plenty of booze and tobacco."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Altruria - a large island-continent in the Southern Ocean. Its exact location is not certain. According to Altrurians, their country represents the kingdom of Heaven upon earth.
William Dean Howells, A Traveller from Altruria, Edinburgh, 1894; William Dean Howells, Through The Eye of the Needle, London & New York, 1907.

Inglês - Dia 78

"Dean turns twelve today. School has started again, but we're going to move on. Next week, the Winchesters are going to be residents of Albuquerque. Dean's going to be a normal sixth grader for at least the next couple of months. He even talked about to wanting to play baseball this spring, but I'm not sure he's serious. I think he's taking his cues from me, talking about everyday stuff when I try to keep us in one place. Then, when we're on the road again, all he can talk about is hunting."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alta Plana - a land of wild peaks and glaciers, east of GREAT MARINA. After the fall of Great Marina, Alta Plana became a place of refuge.
Ernst Jünger, Auf den Marmorklippen, Frankfurt, 1939

Inglês - Dia 77

"Something new yesterday. I took out a nest of succubi - at least that's what everyone I talked to says they were. Sexually predatory, voracious demons. they can change their appearance, and they all transformed to look like Maryat one point. God help me, I was weak. It was like seen her there again, in the flesh, and I let myself believe for just a minute. (...)"
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alsondons, Empire of the - located in the Southern Seas, far to the north of ANTARTIC: FRANCE. It is a small subterranean empire, one and a half leagues by six, situated in a huge cavern crossed by a wide river. Waterfalls upstream and downstream make the empire virtually inaccessible.
Robert-Martin Lesuire, L'Aventurier Français, ou Mémoires de Grégoire Merveil, Paris, 1792

Inglês - Dia 76

"Battled a nasty little bugger today. Kicked the beast back to wherever it came from. But as I looked into that stinking mouth, I wondered for the hundredth time: when's my time gonna come? And if something happens to me, who'll take care of the boys? Dean tries to be the big man a lot, but he's not even twelve.  And Sam's just seven. Just trying to do this without you is hard enough, Mary...Mary..."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Allalonestone - a sea stack in the North Atlantic, the home of the last surviving gairfowl, or great auk, a bird hunted to extinction long ago. The last gairfowl sits on this remote rock, crooning old songs it learnt in its far-off youth.
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London, 1863

Inglês - Dia 75

"Dean turns eleven today. He asked for his own gun, and I got him one. A Seecamp LWS .32 automatic, the smallest gun I could find that offered any kind of stopping power. Dean and I poured silver slugs for it ourselves, and we loaded it with alternating silver and Winchester hollow-points. He's got it in his pocket now."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alkoe- a volcano on the edge of the territory of SAS DOOPT SWANGEANTI. The name also applies to the mining and trading settlements on the lower slopes of the mountain, now a colony of Sas Doopt Swangeanti.
Robert Paltock, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn, in the ship "Hector". By R.S., a Passenger in the "Hector", London, 1783

inglês - Dia 74

"Mary has been dead for two years. I've been on the road for three days, cleaning up a haunted building in San Francisco. Already these are starting to seem like an everyday chore to me. You get the story, you find the remains, you burn them and salt them. End of story. These were two girls, and the whole ride back to the roadhouse I was thinking that I'll never have girls. Dean saw something on my face, or maybe it was just that he knew what day it is. When I got here, he came up to me and asked if I'd had a tough hunt. I couldn't talk for a minute."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alifbay - a country of uncertain location, is the site of the saddest city on earth, a city so ruinously sad that it has forgotten its own name. Factories in the city's northern districts manufacture sadness wich is then packaged and sent all over the world.
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, London, 1990. 

Inglês - Dia 73

"Sammy is a year old. We spent his birthday in the mountains, because I had to meet a guy named Daniel Elkins. The hunter culture is weird about how it breaks in new blood. Everyone you meet says you should go meet someone else, and learn something else, and every time you meet someone else they take you to hunt their favorite kind of monster. This guy Elkins lives in a cabin out in the middle of nowhere in Colorado, and according to him, he's the greatest vampire hunter alive."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Aleofane or Gem of Truth - an island of the RIALLARO ARCHIPELAGO in the southeast Pacific. Its coastline consists of cliffs and quicksand beaches. Inland, on the banks of a river, stands the capital. Numerous palaces with marble steps and landing stages line the river, rising from the banks in great terraces; around the city lie miles and miles os squalid slums and hovels.
Godfrey Sweven, Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles, New York & London, 1901; Godfrey Sweven, Limanora, the Island of Progress, New York & London, 1903.

Inglês - Dia 72

"I went to Missouri, and learned the truth. And from her, I met Fletcher Gable, who gave me this book and said: 'Write everything down.' That's what Fletcher told me, like this new life is a school and I'll flunk out if I don't have good notes. Only if I flunk out of this school, I'll be dead. And the boys will be orphans. So I'm going to go back to where this started."
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal - Alex Irvine

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alderley Edge - a high sombre hill in Cheshire, six hundred feet high and three miles long. A road runs along the foot of the hill with fields on its far side. Tall breeches extend right down to the road but despite the trees there are no birds. 
Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, London, 1960

Inglês - Dia 71

"But after a while they stopped taling about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future."

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alcina's Island - can be found, according to some travellers, near the coast of Japan; according to others, in the Caribbean. A large island, the size of Sicily, its flora is abundant: woods of laurel, palm, cedar, myrtle and orange shade the low hills and the meadows.

Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Ferrara, 1516; George Friederic Handel & A. Marchi, Alcina, first performance London, 1735.

Inglês - Dia 70

"He wheeled and went into the observation saloon. Miss Van Schuyler was seated in her usual corner. She looked even more arrogant than usual. She was knitting. Ferguson strode up to her. Hercule Poirot, entering unobstrusively, took a seat a discreet distance away and appeared to be absorbed in a magazine."

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alca or Penguin Island - a republic in the English Channel, now attached to the coast of France. High mountains loom over a pleasant green land covered with a certain kind of salt grass, willows, fig and oak trees,

Anatole France, L'Ile des pingouins, Paris, 1908; Daniel Defoe, A New Voyage Round The World, By a Course never sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders, London, 1724.

Inglês - Dia 69

"Poirot glanced in both directions. The deck was empty. He then sprinted towards the stern. As he rounded the corner he ran into Tim Allerton, who was coming full tilt from the opposite direction."

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

Imaginary Place of the day:
Albur - the largest state on PLUTO, the underground world in the centre of the hollow globe of the earth. Like everything on Pluto, things in Albur are much smaller than their equivalents on the surface.

Anonymous, Voyage au centre de la terre, ou aventures de quelques naufragés dans des pays inconnus. Traduit  de l'anglais de Sir  Hormidas Peath, Paris, 1821.

Dieta - Dia 81

Passei um bom tempo sem falar sobre a dieta, em parte por esquecimento e em parte porque tenho demorado bem mais para perder peso. Na semana retrasada perdi apenas 300g, assim como na semana passada, totalizando pouco mais de 0,5 Kg eliminado em duas semanas. Embora eu já imaginasse que isso iria acontecer em algum momento, ainda é um pouco frustrante. Tenho feito um dia off na dieta por semana e talvez isso esteja desacelerando as coisas. Ou então meu corpo decidiu que já emagreci o suficiente e eu tenha atingido um temido platô. Provavelmente os dois! Hahahaha. Fora isso, tenho seguido o plano normal e consumido 1.000 calorias diárias.

Agora, falando do lado positivo, há 3 semanas alcancei minha meta inicial de 56 Kgs. Acho que já tem uns dois anos que não pesava tão pouco. Mas é claro que, como uma eterna insatisfeita, eu já arranjei uma nova meta: 53 Kgs. Serão mais de 10 Kgs eliminados e voltarei ao corpo que tinha quando comecei a faculdade, há uns 9 anos atrás. Na verdade eu acho um tanto audacioso, mas falta tão pouco pra isso que não custa tentar.

Comprei dois jeans novos em um tamanho menor e com cintura mais baixa e só tenho usado eles. Isso, por si só, já é uma vitória. Minhas roupas mais justas tem servido perfeitamente bem, também, e já sinto que tenho mais opções na hora de me vestir.

Infelizmente não estou conseguindo beber tanta água quanto deveria. São apenas 2L por dia, mas as vezes esqueço e acabo deixando para lá. Vou tentar retomar o ritmo essa semana!

Inglês - Dia 68

"Poirot bent again gently and picked up the right hand. Something just showed within the fingers. He detached it and held it out to Race, a little sliver of flimsy paper coloured a pale mauvish pink."

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." Brian Tracy

Imaginary Place of the day:
Albraca - (...) Angelica, Galafrone's daughter, who drove Orlando to madness and made so many of Charlemagne's knights fall in love with her, took refuge here from the King of Tartary.

Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando innamorato, Milan, 1487; Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Ferrara, 1516.

Inglês - Dia 67

"He was looking feverish and very much worse than earlier in the day. Poirot appreciated Bessner's anxiety to get him as swiftly as possible to hospital and skilled appliances. The little Belgian explained what the two of them were doing, and Simon nodded approval. On learning that the pearls had been restored by Miss Bowers, but proved to be merely imitation, he expressed the most complete astonishment."

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good." Thomas Jefferson

Imaginary Place of the day:
Albino Land - a small country of ill-defined borders somewhere in central Africa. The inhabitants are albinos with features similar to those of the Negroes in the surrounding countries.
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet], Essai sur l'histoire générale et sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à nos jours, Geneva, 1756

Inglês - Dia 66

"People crept into the dining-saloon by ones and twos in a very subdued manner. There seemed a general feeling that to sit down eagerly to food displayed an unfortunate heartlessness. It was with an almost apologetic air that one passenger after another came and sat down at their tables."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day." Barack Obama

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alastor's Cavern - somewhere in the Caucasus, amid crags and whirlpools, discovered by the dreamer Alastor after he left his home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands. Travellers who have dreamt of a similar place are advised not to seek it, as the whole region seems to have the property of bringing despair and disappointment tho those who reach it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude, London, 1816 

Inglês - Dia 65

"Andrew Pennington. This is on the assumption that he has been guilty of fraudulent practices. There is a certain amount of evidence in favour of that assumption, but not enough to justify making out a case against him. If it was him who rolled down the boulder, he is a man who can seize a chance when it presents itself. The crime, clearly, was not premeditated except in a general way. Last night's shooting scene was an ideal opportunity."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imaginary Place of the day:
Alall - (...) Alali society is entirely dominated by women. Because the women cannot admire the males over whom they hold dominion they cannot love them either, and they treat them with brutality and contempt.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Ant Men,  New York, 1924

Inglês - Dia 64

"Andrew Pennington displayed all the conventional  reactions of grief and shock. He was, as usual, carefully dressed. He had changed into a black tie. His long clean-shaven face bore a bewildered expression."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." Napoleon Bonaparte

Imaginary Place of the day:
Akkama - a vast country to the north-westof Fingiswold. The southern parts of Akkama are a sandy desert, rising to the high tablelands of the centre and the north.

E.R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses, A Vision of Zimiamvia, London, 1935; E.R.Eddison, The Mezentian Gate, London, 1958.

Inglês - Dia 63

"'As as family we have always prided ourselves on being exclusive, Colonel Race. My dear mother would never have dreamed of calling upon any of the Hartz family who, outside their wealth, were nobodies.'"
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzche

Imaginary Place of the day:
Airfowlness - a remote part of western Scotland; its exact location remains unknown. Airfowlness is a gathering place for seabirds, who meet here before flying north to their summer breeding places. Visitors will be able to observe immense flocks of swans, geese, eider ducks, smews, gossanders, divers, petrels and gannets, outnumbering those seen anywhere else in the world.

Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale fo a Land-Baby, London, 1863

Inglês - Dia 62

" Race shrugged his shoulders. 'He tells quite a straight story. He's nervous, of course, but not unduly so. We'll have to investigate his alibi - though I don't suppose it will be decisive. His mate was probably asleep, and this fellow could had slipped in and out if he wanted to. It depends whether anyone else saw him.'"
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama

Imaginary Place of the day:
Aiolio - a floating island usually found in the western extremity of the Mediterranean. It consists of naked rock surrounded by an indestructible bronze wall. Here, in the centre of the rock, Aiolos Hippotades, King of the Winds, has built a magnificent palace for himself, his wife, six daughters and six sons, all of whom currently practise incest.

Homer, The Odyssey, 9th cen. BC

Inglês - Dia 61

"They went down to the deck below, where they found the manager of the Karnak waiting uneasily in the doorway of the smoking-room. The poor man was terribly upset and worried over the whole business, and was eager to leave everything in Colonel Race's hands."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." Abraham Lincoln

Imaginary Place of the day:
Aiaia - an island in the eastern extremity of the Mediterranean, though some believe it to be in the Black Sea. It is almost uninhabited, except for Circe the Sorceress and her servants who live in a house of polished stone, surrounded by thick bushes and trees in the midst of a large valley. (...)
Homer, The Odyssey, 9th cen B.C.