Sleep helped slightly...

And the fact that I wake up to having all the uploading for 24HTV starting already, as expected. I guess I got into Arashi at the right time when TiVo and TV streaming through your computer is normal and people make watching Arashi on TV their lives. Works for me. Now some memes:

So, maiaide, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 8% unique (blame, for example, your interest in ohno's cock) and 17% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 22

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 48% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

The Blogalyser reveals...

Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 15.

This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).Your blog has 25 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by verbosity
(writing for the web should be concise).

CHARACTER MATRIX

male		female
self		world
past		future

Your text shows characteristics which are 57% male and 43% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the past and lastly the future.

Find out what your blogging style is like!

24 Hr TV

Ahhh the tears are flowing again! Ohno's hard at work with his figures and Edo Harumi is still running... and this blind girl is still swimming across the channel between Aomori and Hokkaido. Ganbare!

Aiba's task was so cute. I felt so moved... I probably will cry all day with this on. There's still 8 hours left. Holy crap. That's a lot of Zelda to play. XD I found the schedule but... they aren't really following the times by the looks of it since Aiba's task was supposed to be on around 11:30. I should get Nino's task and watch that while they're doing other stuff.

The gays have made their entrance! They look prettier than Arashi.

So far, they've raised 1 7442 4221 yen (= $1,744,242.21)! I don't know if that's the total, or just from the calls and online donations during telecast or if that includes everything from donation boxes at the sponsor stores and merchendise. That's still pretty impressive and there is still all day left.

Woah, Tegoshi you look super tanned. Oh, he, Becky and Daisuke (from Kakushi Toride no San Akunin with Junjun) were supposed to go treasure hunting but because of all the rain we've had in the last day, the river is flooded so they can't. :( So I guess they'll go do something else. Revenge?

4:30pm:  Watching this makes me feel... awful.  Just watching these people who have such hope for life, for themselves or their families, and living with something I can't even imagine.  I can't understand what most of these diseases are because of the kanji but just seeing some of these people... I just feel awful.  I just don't understand how the boys aren't crying their hearts out at some of this stuff.  The older guy who is co-hosting is blubbering away... well, Aiba's vow was not to cry this year and so far he's doing well. 

It makes me feel like I don't do enough.  Enough of what?  I'm not even sure what I can do.  It just seems so unfair.  I was so upset last night about something so stupid and irrelevent and what about people living with something they can't change and won't get better?  It makes me want to cry just writing this because I can't do anything.  I don't know what I would feel like if I actually knew someone in that situation. 

I should stop this now because it's just wallowing.

出会って良かった。

やっぱり今年相葉ちゃんも泣いたんだ。  XD

Ahh Nino, you have a way with words.  I think I need to be more forthcoming with my gratitude towards people.  I had thank-yous for f-list friends a while back, and that list has grown since then, but the sentiment remains the same.  I don't friend people often on LJ because ... well.  The basic reason is that I'm freaking lazy.  Anyway. 

本当に、本当に、ありがとう。

I should write some letters.  The list of people I can claim are close friends seems to have dwindled significantly since I left Canada and I'm falling behind on my correspondance with Heather and JC.  I haven't heard from either in a while though school starts this week so I shouldn't be surprised.  But it should be said when you meet someone who affects you... and the years pass and before you realize it four or six years have gone by.  

I've clearly let the sentiment of 24hr TV get to me.  It's nearly over... Edo Harumi is on the final stretch, about 500m to go.  I feel for her immensely.  The weather has turned crappy again so she's running in pouring rain and her body is breaking down.  Not because of the speed or the stamina -- I think she walked a good length of it -- but her feet and knees.  I know it's a "charity run" but she might have been better off concentrating on the run rather than waving at everyone and bowing on the way.  But she looks happy to have finished. 

The stage is papered in faxes of support and well wishes for everyone.  Ohno's art project looks amazing, I can only hope to be that inspired.  The amazing things you can do when you have a large, if not unlimited, budget at your disposal.  Haha.  I'm sure all the boys are really satisfied with their work on this project.  If I caught the numbers right, they raised about 3.6 million dollars!

I shouldn't watch charity shows like this: I'm too weak.

Following the semi-emotional-existential vein...

( Things I Have Lived Through meme )

OH I TOTALLY FORGOT.

Fucking hottest dream I've had in a while last night and I'm so glad I remember it.  At least in parts.  It was kind of an Ohmiya-threesome dream from what I can recall, but Ohno was the sweetest boyfriend on the planet but Nino is a fox in bed.  Yea, I don't even know.  I can only hope for more of those.