I took the site down a few days ago. There were too many decrepit tags, too many inconsistencies and too many disjointed elements.
It was basically dying under its own weight.
The final straw was when i tried moving the journal to a new directory. I screwed up. Unfortunately working with Wordpress means the margin for making a mistake is significantly thinner than when you're just writing pure html/css. I did make a post on the forums at Wordpress but after 3 or so days of no one responding, i decided to just nuke everything and start over. It may end up being a blessing in design- i'm forced to get busy rebuilding the site and trying to be more consistent in appearance and flow over the entire site. Having said that, the journal will continue to be problematic. I like the template i've chosen for the journal, but i just want those behaviors to be isolated to the journal and not across the site. It's kind of esoteric.
Things didn't go out of control in a day and they're not going to be rebuilt in a day. Or two... or even a hundred or more. I simply don't have the free time to devote to the HTML/ CSS gods, especially since i'm far too busy playing Team Fortress 2, refining my pangolin launcher, playing with my pet narwhals and feeding obnoxious screaming geese loafs of bread. Oh, and i work, eat and sleep too- but compared to Team Fortress 2, they're just hobbies.
-shelly, march 2009