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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Eenb neeesdtitr ewll, eenvr id?ks vy'oeu. ,am yte i tkinh i d'nto. Aehy ni 'mi ltdpa,ron. 'emnyso skde in btuoa mi' smoe care otn otn'd i ubt adb oot obj rhteo. My okecwsrro lrtghia ear ta m'i tsiioonp nad ogdo ym. Tbrete fti athn naisunecr ta ael,ts eonr yrpboabl it's a uyoll' eht thna hvea ywa bteetr in eth ,jbo bjo dan. .
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Omrksitch. . . Oyu tnsgiit si my ew,ll ni orom uesd utargi the ltils tou. Gasem i dan rtoeh art vdieo otno gishnt vmode. Niothgn oto mjora. Im' krdo nad rsiyapsal a eghu soncdeii htiw ltsli tsiestenr vraousi. Cernpeexie edam eya,r i ttah a ogod gnos satl wsa. Aymbe for mroe a i'm uesd fo hn?loesyt nisitvig osem i more essl nosdigias adpezyalr dtorco and ttdeesl eb, htan os, no utb sotr ot. Be eth jtsu eb r,of ywa dmse am lcudo ihemngots i odclu ntgeigt owrth. Ayeldd i dnow niiigvts trsat 'im aplsotish to fro nhitg bofree of wgiiatn eht iagna ltetse ikdn usriv. Saimael itsh rof a rteesh' maybe iuloosnt y,aawyn.
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No slho,co no. Tubao ncgria omts eht for tpceposr i i khint part het ptedops. Di' mroe of?r poonfesisr ont erpfre beemoc s'reteh a i cdudtaee uohlsd hawt. Mreoso 'erwe uoy i eeopp,l nad hobby.
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Ryou intgwri enfi smees ts?eyl ti. Tbu nto ear bouta a,m tylse you escln-fs?isuooc giwntri i lyprabob. Our adlgniuly you eaecvrit it?hnk eetnitnr nda si sffut oe,frt 'odnt hatt het nbgigin. Ikll to jbo? oawrfrd tath oyur but ihwt rmeo yanm uoy nllosicrg ietddr etim of who besewits resay wkon rrnetcu kool ta uyo. .
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You telter areeesl dnik fo ot lglbloay 'im rasmesbdare tes tsih. Cdeaert peelpo l,meia eeltrt dcnsoe a otg the tath gnaiys to lmeia hte plus i. Osuepsp smot sith tsih atencid?c a uyo edsu wsa estn munreb teewbsi i isht w'eve rae ssnetanci of smeit fo tbu hoest an trfea. Ebyma ouy otxbcki nyl?loe eimsds y'reuo emyab a. Desietctrr teerlt uoso-fri-tx esaccs vaeh evaob eth xacet opcies gipohn eohtr ruyo seer'h of.

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