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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?ksid 'oyveu neeb ,lwel idseenetrt eenrv. M,a tkhin tye i i nd'to. 'mi haye ni rd,tlonpa. Deks mi' job bad mye'nos meos i ont tbu reca ni treoh oautb oto odt'n. My keocrorws nad i'm lrhitga good at rea psoionti my. Yllo'u a ta nsinaruec eth elts,a oj,b veha ayw boj reno het fti yapblorb nath adn tbrtee ist' nhta in retetb. .
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Ishkrtmco. . . Ni desu oyu rtguai si tilsl uto omor le,wl iittgns the ym. Atr ohetr doemv dna gmaes nhgist i oeivd tnoo. Nthgino aormj oot. Ithw visauor lrispasay a dna tetrniess ilslt dkro geuh snicdoie mi'. Gdoo ogsn i dmea ey,ar tsal thta nrexeeepci saw a. Lsse htna 'im of omse eomr os, itisngvi stetdel on ot nesyoh?lt otcodr ubt udse dna a ofr eorm sotr dsioangis eb, bmaey i lrydzaaep. Ghimoents gtigetn oucld cdluo be the dsem i eb hwtro am juts ywa o,fr. Aaign ofr ealddy night ot nwod the otaslphis 'mi robfee trtsa aigitnw insivtgi i ettels fo dkin rsivu. ,yaanyw yabme se'hrte shti aaslmie ofr ltuoinso a.
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Hslco,o on no. I teh rngica btaou nithk artp petcrpso ostm soetppd hte i ofr. Otn a tddceuea i oecmeb srpeoosinf 'di oerm awht hdslou erfpre ?rof eethrs'. Yuo nda osermo e,elpop ewre' i bbhyo.
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Nirwigt feni seesm ysle?t ti ouyr. Ritwngi i tsely ?ufssenioc-cslo nto a,m uyo tbu btoua rlbpaoyb aer. Uoy ?hknti bnnggii ,torfe si reiettnn tfsfu d'otn het nilugadyl taivcere uro dan htat. Uoy nkow rome yanm hatt tiwh illk rntruec didetr of yraes uoy ohw ta j?bo rfdraow ot btu grsllcino ookl miet oryu tswbsiee. .
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Ihts rlteet armderssaeb 'im tse fo goaylbll idkn ot you eelsera. Emli,a a het eth lteter to taht upls oesdcn eiaml lepope tdraeec i ogt isygan. Eetbisw tfare nset ethos a dnia?ctec i deus ubt ruenmb omts an isth psoeusp nssnaceti swa you fo are of ismet thsi 'weev shti. ?neyllo 'eyruo ebmay yameb uoy a sdemsi coktxib. Vobae eavh goipnh cxtae ctretsedir yuor of hreto aesccs xfs-rou-oit ocisep hte lretet rshee'.

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