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Wow, I just fixed it I think. SOrry for the freakout! I kept poking around and found that my wp_options table had become marked as crashed. I ran the mysql client and ran “repair table wp_options” It did warn me that it changed the rows from 13,000 something to 200 something which sort of concerns me, but things appear to work. Strange. This post helped, and this guy seems to have had the same issue a few years ago, so maybe just one of those weird flukes:
http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/03/10/repair-a-crashed-mysql-table/
I hope this helps someone else and I hope my blog still works. I still welcome any insight. I think I’ll go back up my database again now that my heart has slowed down.