yes, this totally deserves a new post
The status page finally catches up:
LiveJournal may be unresponsive or slow to load due to some database problems we're experiencing. Our Operations staff is working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
7:12 pm GMT (Wednesday, May 13)
I'm seriously getting tired of these problems.
ETA:The heavily armed monkeys guarding the servers currently report no site-wide problems.
7:22 pm GMT (Wednesday, May 13)
Yes, it's loading for me again.
That was a bit longer than the last couple outages! What the hell is up with LJ?!