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Autostraddle.com’s Technical Difficulties

Hey SO remember that time that Autostraddle became SO AWESOME AND SO POPULAR that we had to upgrade to a new server something something and we decided to do the upgrade this weekend and were told it would take like 4-5 hours on a Saturday and we were like ok cool, awesome, we’ll just put up a little disclaimer

and we knew that there might be old content rather than new content visible but that we’d all model through it and so it was weird but not totally unsurprising that the website went back in time to like June 7th even though it was actually June 12th IRL and meanwhile Laneia & Sarah were drunk in a mudpit at Bonnarrooo and Alex & Riese & Crystal were all on airplanes and then we paid for wireless on the airplane to San Fransisco on my already maxed-out credit card so we could do some shit for y’all but then it turned out that nobody could get into the wordpress dashboard at all, but we were still writing content that we figured we’d put up later when the wordpress dashboard started working

and then we felt sick on the airplane and then hungry and they wanted us to pay like $15 for a sandwich AND THEN THEY RAN OUT OF SANDWICHES

and then Alex slept on her tray table and the guy in front of me reclined basically up my vagina that’s how close it was

AND THEN the website still wasn’t working which is fine, and the lady next to Alex kept trying to talk to us and look at our computer screens so there was NO WAY that NSFW Sunday was going to be written in text-edit under these conditions and then the internet just killed me, it just totally won, and so I read the rest of LIKE ME by Chely Wright and teared up like six times

and then we got to San Francisco but we were already late for the Justin Bieber lookalike contest and the website still wasn’t working which made me feel stressy so I just drank a lot of vodka and had a cheeseburger that I’d get to see again later in the night and then we went to the wrong bar and then we went to the right bar and then my dream lover, who happens to look like Justin Bieber (sidenote: Intern Hot Laura spotted the Justin Bieber/Lesbian connection FIRST FIRST FIRST and like many things we created, coughcoughcoughcoughcoughyouknowwhoyouareandwhatyouredoing, have since been appropriated by others for their own desires, and this one was pretty obvious, we’re just telling you that Laura noticed it first b/c we want you to know how amazing our Interns are), was on the stage, and she had to share-win the prize with the other girl who did not look like Justin Bieber but who M. told me had the more appealing personality so i was like, okay that makes sense

and then I think i said something to fitforafemme about how cute her outfits are IRL and then we came back and something inside of me was clearly yearning to be free as I then spent twenty hours vomiting with body aches and pains which has been super neat and a fun way to spend a Sunday IN MY FAVORITE CITY ON EARTH, mostly vomiting and headaching and for maybe two hours just sort of weeping in the darkness 

and I think I sent an email about the website still not working while crying face down into a pillow and Tess was trying to fix it because Tess is tessmagic but apparently our hosting company is not hostmagic and you all were very confused and I gave up and tried to watch a movie on Netflix

and then I woke up two hours later and felt slightly better and then we went to go see Julie Goldman at a futon store and she was SO SO SO SO funny and rocked the house and then i put food in my body and then we felt way better and then we got home and the wordpress dashboard STILL won’t open so we can’t even post a new post to let you know what’s going on and it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s all totally fine, totally totally fine.

I pride us on being on top of our shit, and we’ve been running on empty for a while but totally modeling through it, and so I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I don’t understand what a DNS server is, but I will cut that bitch when I find her.

I love you all. We miss you!