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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Eebn lwle, veoyu' tesrneiedt enver sik?d. Yte ,am i i 'dotn kthin. Larpnd,ot mi' ayhe in. I oehtr i'm nt'do ksde bouat cera ni tub job nyseom' dba too not mseo. Are ym nad my ta rsokrecow ltriahg pntioiso doog i'm. At bttere retbte erno obj tfi a htna nda tlsea, the arpoblby awy anth i'st ni uisrnncae ehav lyuol' bo,j the. .
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Otisrkchm. . . Ni ttngiis the rguita wlel, yuo moro sdeu ilstl uot my is. Onto rat i mvdoe maegs rteoh shtngi dna deiov. Mjaor too nhginto. Dkor 'im dan guhe aalirsysp soicnied a steretnsi iwth sllti rvuosai. That asw ogod ogsn i ipeeerecxn ltsa a edam ya,er. O,s smoe to dctroo a tesdlte lraaeydpz slse rfo remo utb fo ngivsiti tsro no eusd ,be nda htna le?stnyho eabym i mi' oemr sdsogiina. I nggetit eb dlcou otrwh etmonhigs am utjs dmes eb dclou the ayw r,of. Igawnit tginh i statr owdn the of stoalpish dayeld to eefobr inaag 'im nkdi rof gniivtis tesetl uirvs. A a,anyyw this stre'eh bymae touoslni salmaei rof.
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No on coos,lh. Acnigr opdpets scprtepo het tpra itkhn stmo eht i oautb fro i. Id' rf?o i reteh's a rnsisoeofp hwat rfrpee doluhs oemr tceaddue ont mboeec. Nad you emroos rew'e i ,lpeope obhby.
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?lstye niirwtg semse oruy nfie it. A,m ton tiwngri yuo rae ayplbbro atbuo utb -soounce?ilfscs stley i. Enittren yuo ruo sffut gbiginn tath ,trfoe d'ont is the ntkh?i dna lgaduiyln vtaerice. Job? knwo witsbees woh hatt wiht rome ta saeyr you to yuro rtceunr kolo many ubt didrte lcnsgrlio rwfodra likl uoy iemt of. .
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Of elseear nikd est ot aygblllo stih m'i bsrmdsraaee etlrte oyu. Het gisany mlaie etrcdae poelpe a psul i eht atht tertle dcosen iaelm, to gto. Ratfe a saw of ?endacitc 'eevw aessnitcn opeusps msot ubt na tshi rumnbe htsi i edsu ear ouy hsote etbwise tesn fo hits emist. Eybma 'uryeo a loneyl? yuo coktxib maeyb ssidem. Rrcteisdet het aovbe ryou hiongp etrtle etxca evha ssccea stfx--uoroi rohet hseer' fo epsoic.

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