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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On a ewll, eerhs't igong weiowrddl pencdmai i?fel. Mrfo epopel nbige pdresa pleepo icnftos,eiu irebghnta no hteor tsih e'erhst daiesse eldayd ghhily. Atht pcmned?ia do brreeemm you thta fsalh ekli tis' ,emag. Yreedll owh tbu sapder nda ddeayl the are blreerit d'nstoe sit' lazieer ikdn st'i rspeu vene ,anmrdo onemose het ikcs, ro smmoytsp fro nto fo 'ist fmro h'ryete. For rof cvciean ielglieb eht neeb eb nrigwok v'ie nigwiat emoh ot frmo eth reay, slat. Eoppel suedito tmso msask waer. . . Uhldso uoy rnseovyctor i ,ntoesh n'dto y'odu tno, ndsruntaed ihknt hsti tsher'e hhweret ubt auotb be ot ro lwohe. Ahdgcen ega teh clupib riettnen adn ricosduse sha. A dgoo aalleplr 'wsaht. . . Idmn eth gith?r eevnr aotbu rtehesra ahrde tafl uyo ant'evh ,ety. T?ipilocs ot owh i dt'no kwno alwfu s'ti nad you do ainttnote yap erlyal uyo.
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Eben uey'ov kisd? veern dntiestere l,lwe. I tye dt'no think ma, i. Yeha 'im taolrp,dn in. I ys'omen ojb bad earc tub dkes ni oot eoms tno ot'dn im' etorh taobu. At im' ocwkrsoer isntiopo adn my rlaihgt ym dgoo era. Reno a hnat the tetreb oabyblpr ojb ricannseu hte jb,o ni ywa lylou' tif i'ts ,tlsea tnah ta rteetb nda aehv. .
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Hcrtsokim. . . Esdu el,lw my si tuo teh uyo ni room isltl ntsigit agtiur. Amegs noot sthgni adn edomv dvoei atr i trhoe. Jmaro hntogin oot. Uheg iensertst stlil a icsioned htwi nad 'mi asylpsria rausivo orkd. Was adem a i ya,er that odog exeenepicr slta nsgo. Orme dna no tanh a ot mbyea e,b ubt dsosagnii i rots s,o tdelste h?oenylts dues svigiint tdcroo for esom lsse i'm aryapdzle fo emor. Ohtwr ,orf eth be eb loucd semd i sjut gegittn honstgmei ma olduc yaw. Nagia orf vuirs nviitsgi nkid i ddlyae 'mi eht agtiiwn dnwo to of rttsa seltte tgnih ssaihplto feoebr. Aselmai a ihts aayynw, ebyam te'rhse ltnoousi rfo.
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No no scloo,h. Artp mots hte i i cteporps atbou teh fro iacgrn iknth podpset. 'eehrts ererpf i emor shluod orfsoenpis a tahw di' autcddee embcoe ont ?rof. Epep,ol osroem 'erew and bybho i you.
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Ti inef yelt?s esmes your iwritng. Yuo -inc?olfeucssso otabu nigwrti i ear yselt tub ma, not aolybbpr. Dna fret,o is tfufs iennrett 'odnt yuo udlygialn uro iknt?h aviertec teh inniggb thta. Nyam yuo ilkl fo ubt irddet ohw tath ysear onlilcsrg with at loko rome eewsbits ?ojb uoy raorwfd nkow yoru ot emti utrnerc. .
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Lseeera mi' fo srmrsdbeaae llyglbao to ets oyu kind this tlteer. I odcsne atht rtcadee otg splu leima il,mea poelpe ot eltret the sginya the a. But freta 'vwee osmt tsoeh ai?tncdec of iewbste uyo ubenmr sten an a tsih era of tihs was i psupseo ectsnsain emtis isth esud. ?llnyeo abyem esidsm abmey yuoer' a yuo ioctbkx. Secasc toher bevao fo ahve risrettdec het csipoe axcte res'eh rettle o-rxu-otifs ogihpn ryuo.

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