To you, from you

Peaceful right?

Trying to get back the girl right now, waiting around in a lonely, white-walled apartment for another 50 days to pass, when I'll visit Reno in May. I'm going to go have pizza and watch Argo in the conference room in an hour with coworkers. How's life? I wish I could get a response from you, to know that it works out, to know how things happen. Are kids in the future? If I'm back with C she'll want children within the next six years, which currently freaks me out. So if that happened, our first kid would be almost two or three by now, right? I wonder if I'll use my list of names for naming a kid. That's jumping ahead a little, though. Did getting back with C even work out? Haha, was memorizing that Pablo Neruda poem worth it or a waste of time? Are you in Reno now? Is she in Portland? Right now I'm worrying about money a little, and how airfare is ridiculous and I'll pay for a lot to go visit every month or two. Maybe you're a rich jetsetter by now and those aren't concerns anymore? Hey, this is sent from eight years ago. Pretty perfect number, right? :D So I wonder, how have you progressed? I'm trying to learn guitar through Rocksmith, I'm kind of succeeding. I mean, you'll know this because you read your journal... How about your internet prospects? Music production? Language learning? "The language?" How about comic creation? Or the creature world thing? I still need glyphs for ghosts, dragons or chaos, and the cosmos... Are you still at your insurance job? Have you gone back to school? Right now I feel pretty stuck and ambivalent, and scared for the future. I'm getting paid alright and don't want to leave, I know that if I stick it out I'll just get paid more but over time but obviously it's not an enjoyable or fulfilling position and there's much more to life than this godawful cubicle. Does my writing seem different than your current style? Anyway, I guess I'll go do something else. I'll be sending this message a few times across the decades, so if you get this, remember to type up a new one so there'll be a message that gets added to every 10 years! Hmm, maybe I'll make it 8, that seems more suited to me. Alright, see you in 2029.

Epilogue

2 days later

My dude, you should stay in Portland. That whole Reno thing is a waste of time. You're afraid of moving on, so your paradox solution is taking a risk to...

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Hmtksciro. . . Ym moro you iugrta teh in ngitsit otu sllti llwe, si desu. Msgae dievo dna shtngi hrteo i dvemo onot atr. Marjo htinngo oot. Lislt tissneret rodk dan savuior gheu hwit im' a dnoiscei alipsasyr. Gdoo ongs i ltas made thta ,eyra a eepnrixcee saw. Of ,eb ltetdes ebyma sdue nhta i a dazlepayr rfo singodias mero m'i srot lsse nad lyhsto?ne rmeo nsigiivt o,s ootrdc on semo to utb. Ayw dlocu mdes eb rf,o be egittng ujts rtwho cdlou nmsgitoeh teh ma i. For of iaang vrisu robefe ratts igtaniw 'mi eslett ot hte nkid ithgn iisignvt i tsapsiohl dledya dwno. Rhsee't yeamb lseimaa rfo shti ,nayayw a soloutin.
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Locs,ho no no. Somt ofr i i gnicar uobat eht tppocsre hte tepspdo ntikh tapr. Ushdlo erhes't i udedetac oresfopnis ?orf cboeem a d'i hawt tno ererfp more. Wree' meroso nad i ploep,e hybob uyo.
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Seesm wntigri uoyr it tlsy?e fnie. Tno obtua ouy ytels tub ma, bropylab irgntwi -ie?oosucsslcnf are i. Si rttineen hatt our uoy eth ngibgin tn?hik itvaerec linludgay ,etrfo ontd' dan tffsu. Thta nlislcgro yuo uoy namy erasy ihtw lkil ruoy ?boj eteiwsbs tbu fo orfward at kwno urctenr ot ohw etiddr rmeo kloo time. .
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Kndi m'i aereles bylolgal ot of ihst smadsraerbe lteter you tes. A yingas to htat iaelm elppoe het eht i plus e,ailm endocs etdcrea eettrl tgo. Tosm tsih i simet tsih atref of tebeiws ewev' tbu etsn cctandi?e eusd oyu ehost saw cnssnatie shit mrbeun rea osupspe na a fo. A eymba neoyll? sedism cbtokxi aeybm uyo 'yeour. Oeabv het lretet oeicsp sr'eeh uoyr heotr of hvae aextc acescs trcserdtie pingoh iouox-f-srt.

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