Is livejournal usually like this? (she demands angrily.) I was all excited at the prospect of wasting today figuring it out, but it's all server not found, journal read only, journal not readable at all, journal on some other plane of existance... Sigh.

No. It's often recalcitrant, but this last week they've been moving a lot of stuff to new servers, so it's been particularly awful. Scarily so, as when entire journals seem to disappear, although in reality they did not.

So, why did you randomly friend me? I would guess fandom stuff, except I don't write about fandom stuff in this journal anymore, just carmarthen, due to a fit of sweeping paranoia several months ago.