I'm touched that you noticed my disappearance. Although we haven't had that much contact over the last five years, it still feels to me somehow that you and I go back quite a long way (in LJ-land and in LJ-time terms, of course).
I'm still alive, it seems. And I do still keep up with your journal (and personally, I especially like your book reviews in Dutch - your longer pieces in your Dutch journal have not been so easy for me to read, because their length increases the chances and frequency of me needing to turn to a dictionary to identify a verb from a past participle conjugation ("ingedaald", for example ;)). But as for my own journal, well, I never really ever did get used to writing in my LJ, for neither public nor friends-only consumption. The journal, just lying there unattended, and being fairly slim in content (and possibly interest) anyway, was looking evermore pathetic to me. The contrast between what I could have written in it and what I actually did wrote in it was too great for me to feel that I could leave it there in good conscience as a record of my life during the past five years. And I never did strike a healthy balance between trivial and 'more revealing' entries, and often I think I came across as a moody, self-obsessed arsehole (which I am perhaps saddest about). So... I made it inaccessible.
The problem is, to some people whom I know only through my LJ, it makes me inaccessible, as well. Which was never my intention, because although I couldn't really write in my journal, I would be more than happy to correspond with anyone previously on my friends list (and as you know, I have already). As long as people don't remove me from their friends lists, I can still see their friends-only entries, although it hardly seems fair that I am allowed that privilege when I don't offer the same degree of openness in return.
Hope you don't mind if I fire you an email sometime, to stay in touch.
I decided to review Dutch books is Dutch, as an English review is fairly useless. Not sure what I'll do when I read Spanish and or German books later this year:-)
I have given up my Dutch LJ. Perhaps will delete it someday soon as well, have started a Dutch weblog (in the links on the right as well), for my Dutch reviews and old stories. Nobody seems to have noticed though, not bothered actually.
I'll keep you on my friends-list, feel free to comment/mail, perhaps someday you decided to reactivate your LJ, I liked your posts, however rare they were.
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Date: 2005-04-09 04:42 pm (UTC)What happened to spiralstairs
Date: 2005-05-22 09:43 pm (UTC)I'm touched that you noticed my disappearance. Although we haven't had that much contact over the last five years, it still feels to me somehow that you and I go back quite a long way (in LJ-land and in LJ-time terms, of course).
I'm still alive, it seems. And I do still keep up with your journal (and personally, I especially like your book reviews in Dutch - your longer pieces in your Dutch journal have not been so easy for me to read, because their length increases the chances and frequency of me needing to turn to a dictionary to identify a verb from a past participle conjugation ("ingedaald", for example ;)). But as for my own journal, well, I never really ever did get used to writing in my LJ, for neither public nor friends-only consumption. The journal, just lying there unattended, and being fairly slim in content (and possibly interest) anyway, was looking evermore pathetic to me. The contrast between what I could have written in it and what I actually did wrote in it was too great for me to feel that I could leave it there in good conscience as a record of my life during the past five years. And I never did strike a healthy balance between trivial and 'more revealing' entries, and often I think I came across as a moody, self-obsessed arsehole (which I am perhaps saddest about). So... I made it inaccessible.
The problem is, to some people whom I know only through my LJ, it makes me inaccessible, as well. Which was never my intention, because although I couldn't really write in my journal, I would be more than happy to correspond with anyone previously on my friends list (and as you know, I have already). As long as people don't remove me from their friends lists, I can still see their friends-only entries, although it hardly seems fair that I am allowed that privilege when I don't offer the same degree of openness in return.
Hope you don't mind if I fire you an email sometime, to stay in touch.
Ta-ta, mate.
Martin
Re: What happened to spiralstairs
Date: 2005-05-24 04:23 pm (UTC)I decided to review Dutch books is Dutch, as an English review is fairly useless. Not sure what I'll do when I read Spanish and or German books later this year:-)
I have given up my Dutch LJ. Perhaps will delete it someday soon as well, have started a Dutch weblog (in the links on the right as well), for my Dutch reviews and old stories. Nobody seems to have noticed though, not bothered actually.
I'll keep you on my friends-list, feel free to comment/mail, perhaps someday you decided to reactivate your LJ, I liked your posts, however rare they were.
take care!