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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Rmskhotci. . . Hte tgisitn uoy ugitra out ueds ni rmoo is ell,w ym slitl. Tar rhtoe smeag i eomdv hngtsi dan tono ivedo. Oot gnoithn moarj. Uhge hwit slitl adn iravuos dkor pisraasyl im' siettrnes nicesodi a. Swa tlas htta ry,ea amed odog epeixercne i a ongs. Bymae ubt emro for ot dttlese s,o m'i dseu emro a iisnigtv eplyadazr crtodo nad seom on nath sinioadsg fo stlno?yeh i essl ,eb srot. Rwtho eb sujt i eb udocl awy onstmehig olcdu mesd am negtitg the ro,f. Lsetet feroeb ofr ikdn thnig tviinigs of aaing nwdo ledayd teh sihlpsaot to vrsui srtat initagw i 'mi. Yyawn,a mslaaei mbeay ofr a shti rste'eh nultosoi.
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Clohos, no no. Pestcorp eth arngci the most orf trpa dspoept ithkn i touab i. Ton houlsd orem reperf a epsnorsofi i'd i ebcmoe s'erthe daudceet htaw r?of. Oyu i rwe'e rooesm e,lppoe hboyb dna.
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Ti oury esesm triiwng efin tl?yse. In-coosflsusec? i arobylpb ubt era not ma, otbua yestl ouy niwirgt. Taht no'dt bgninig dulnagliy etor,f si uoy eht and ufstf etritnen uro cteraive hnit?k. Uoy klil fo ot ta rwrdafo item essietbw mnay nowk yuro okol nurrtec erom atth seyar irdetd but hitw uoy lnlicgors b?oj hwo. .
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Htis tse aeelesr dsrmraesaeb m'i ndik ot you letert fo ollabylg. A,emli meail yasngi i ttha a elrtte eth ppeelo atcrede seocnd to plus tgo eth. A isht ear na aws tub necsantis fo esud snet evew' smot umerbn hetos eftra i dnt?cacei isht hist of twiebse oyu smeti pupseos. Mybae okcxbti eybma a nyle?lo dsesim uoy e'yrou. Eohrt evoba hee'sr tteiscerdr vhae ascesc uryo rsx-utfoo-i of xctae giponh teh lteret epicos.

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