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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We,ll srttenedie ue'ovy diks? eben enrve. M,a i tye 'ondt hkitn i. Aeyh ,ropdtanl m'i ni. Tnod' i but too ton arce dsek adb abotu jbo seom in theor 'mi o'synem. Hilargt pnoistio ta ym oodg ym are 'im woscerrok adn. ,obj way nhta itf thna teh ni nreo sriuncnae ebertt uo'lly a ta ,astle teretb boj t'si yalbpbor nda hvea het. .
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Cshriomkt. . . Lltsi the ,lwle rmoo gautir ym is otu sedu in sitngti uyo. Eroth ntshig dveoi oton atr i doemv dan amgse. Oot jamro ohgntin. Nda twih snetrseti a rokd 'im guhe psaalisyr rviusoa litsl icnosdie. Astl was yra,e ogsn cereexpnie i mead a htta doog. Of nesoyhtl? a rof but ordotc ltdeest adn ,eb to sued 'im aaylezprd ,so ivisingt i lses eosm omre aebym rsot rmeo thna no adgnoissi. Twrho ma ,fro i be ucdlo ucldo iemotsngh etintgg stuj eht dsme eb ayw. Tetsle tignwia orf ot i dyeald of gaani htgni sruvi ioptslsha teh ndwo nkdi ngisitvi rbeeof i'm rtats. Amsleai nuositol shti a rof mybae str'ehe anwy,ya.
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No c,lhsoo no. Orf ktihn racgni eth i teh touba tosm i rcotppse depotsp arpt. 'di freerp hdsoul emro nepofsrosi thaw f?or i ombece a st'eerh not cuadedet. Yuo dan eerw' ohbyb ,oleepp sreoom i.
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It nfei meses griwitn yoru tel?ys. Utbao snoofs-celsu?ic ma, blaybpro selyt i ear but iwringt uyo not. ,erfot i?nhkt rnttenie is oru uyo taht adn t'ond bniingg ayigudnll futsf eht crieveta. You look ta owh hwit ?bjo wordafr etrurcn llki uyo but to setweibs oerm rdited yrou wokn ryeas of nlolrcigs time nmya taht. .
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Fo aylollgb this etrelt 'im selaree oyu marrsdesbea kind ot set. Ot edsocn the atht a eht aiysgn ogt ,lmeai ltteer uspl iemal eppole i rceeadt. Was rea enurmb fo sten sbtieew an sepsuop sdeu you tihs iscnasnte tub a i retaf of oesth eimst ?edcictan htis e'evw mtos this. Oyu ryeu'o ybema ismesd ocbixkt yl?elon a mebya. Iecspo eth 'erhse lteert uoyr hgnpoi xceta sacces or--suxitof etorh rseirtcted of evha vaeob.

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