Whelp, I appear to have irreparably fucked-up my weblog. (Oh yeah…THIS is why we don’t mess with the server in the middle of the night, huh? Or, in my case, EVER, really, but the middle of the night is especially dangerous.)

Accidentally screwed up the database and I don’t have a recent backup. Sure, I can re-post the interesting stuff, but the comments will be lost and the links from other sites are going to be all messed up, no matter what I do. (EDIT: I’m working on this. If you have links to my content that you wish to maintain, never fear, for I shall have articles posted again in a permanant location hopefully within the next few days and will post links to everything here so that you can find it. I just have to finish figuring out Textpattern and writing my template so that I can repost all of my writing, then I’ll work on the blog. Priorities, you know. Stay tuned.)

Should I even bother putting stuff back up (Edit for clarification: on this blog specifically, since I’ll put at least some of it elsewhere)? Okay, the real question I suppose I’m asking: should I bother to keep blogging (here?)? I like talking about feminist issues and engaging in dialogue with other feminists online. It’s a good way to get an audience and to feel like I’m doing something productive in the world. But I don’t like feeling like I have to write really interesting engaging stuff all the time–and if I write stuff that’s not smart or insightful I feel like I shouldn’t be bothering, but I don’t want to have a two or three week gap in between blog posts just because I can’t always think of something to say. Get what I’m saying? The self-inflicted pressure doesn’t work well for me and having to just start over again just makes me despair about doing it.

I don’t want to stop writing about these things, so I’d probably just publish them in different places, in different mediums, so don’t freak out at the suggestion.
This isn’t to say that I wouldn’t post at least some of the stuff elsewhere, mind. I’d probably just put the posts I thought were interesting on my main site instead. Actually, that seems to work well with what I was trying to do when I screwed my site up: install a CMS to manage my writing on the main site so that it’d be less complicated and I’d have an RSS feed, etc, etc.

I’ve been too busy working on other stuff lately to really post anything interesting for a bit anyway. I’d rather work on my fiction and art and trying to get stuff published. (Maybe for money, even! *gasp*)

I guess I’ll sleep on it.

What do you people, those of you who care, think?

This entry was posted on Monday, April 10th, 2006 at 3:46 am and is filed under Random.