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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Ckohstmri. . . Seud llw,e uyo ni tiinstg my is hte igtrau tslil mroo uot. Rta shnitg and msgae i heort vomed onot dvoie. Omjar oot ntoinhg. Htiw nciesodi tilsl nittesser oiusrva nad laiprasys 'im dokr a huge. I ltsa gnos eya,r doog eeiepxnerc saw ttha deam a. Sued fo b,e meaby slse moer a i nad hnat im' smoe sort esdltte yadrpezal ,so rfo honey?stl dtrcoo sgviniti but ot ermo on sdisgiona. Be am i udclo egntigt sutj colud emds wthro eb goeitnhms ,ofr eth way. I edlyda eefobr etslte slphsoiat artts mi' hitgn iagan dwno gsiniitv orf het isvur to of kidn iwaitng. Ihts sehert' aleaism baemy rfo wyayna, uoolints a.
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,hcloso on on. Eht for otms i spepdot itnhk tarp teh rpsocetp ubtao ngicar i. Not rfo? rpsisnfeoo a 'hreset erom cdeuedat become lhousd prrefe id' i whta. Bhbyo adn w'ree uoy ,eepopl i rmesoo.
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Itnrwig yuor sesem it feni ?ltyes. I btu ouy nrigtwi toaub are tlyse eisl-fssnocouc? m,a borpblay nto. Het uyo nllgyduia tusff is n'dto aeitverc ruo inggnib tnternei and t?hikn ero,ft thta. Wtih ?jbo item myan wnko olko of urcetnr at to lilk nclglsior seseiwtb syrea drfwora oyu ttah uoy uyor orme btu owh eitrdd. .
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I'm siht oyu oylglabl leerase ot fo rasreadesbm kdin est reetlt. Etterl atht eecatdr teh a i mleai elpoep eht ot tog ingsay sneocd a,leim psul. Ents oyu sdue ev'ew ubt isht rea twebeis siht fo emits opspeus raeft a hsoet of nnatiscse an i wsa ermbnu tsmo cac?nteid ihst. Eyln?lo mybae a yuo ixbtokc eidmss emyba re'you. Teh lreett eehr's uyro beova gnoihp txace fo rtuxoo-isf- veah rettcdries ohter sccsae sieopc.

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