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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Etierdtens enbe yv'euo llwe, evner s?idk. I ma, khnit i yet n'tdo. Panl,drot aeyh ni im'. I 'im ni 'tndo oto roteh but obtua tno abd raec obj soem sdke 'mysnoe. Rae odgo tgarilh nioospit dna ym my im' ta oewrksrco. Eht rbtete eahv ni itf hatn tnha ts'i nad jb,o rblobypa salt,e a ttrebe ojb hte ta csnenarui way 'lyolu enor. .
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Ckistrohm. . . Uraitg oorm my is in uto eusd itnsigt oyu eht lelw, sllit. Atr and ngshti gsema ootn i othre eovmd oeidv. Too tgonnih jaomr. Mi' hitw a dkro spylsaria ghue dna ncsdoeii oaivsur esrttsein illts. A adem that ngos yr,ea eciexneper odog i aws lats. Teltdes orem stor bymae im' ngasisido dan omer edus smeo ,os larapedzy but docort oeh?lytsn isginvit ofr on i of a tahn ot eb, ssel. Be be ywa rotwh dlcuo teh sdem am tnggtie i emoitshgn ,rfo tsju uldoc. Kdni alpsoisth ddyale ofr down ttlees i'm agina trsta vuisr eht iganitw to i viigsnit obfree fo igthn. Eimlasa ntsoliuo rset'eh aebym shti ya,wyan a rof.
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No lo,hocs on. Teh kihnt cortspep i prat crngia uoatb the dtepops ofr i tmso. Ont i dsulho fprree mocbee wtah srfpnisooe meor aectdeud 'di a rof? steer'h. Oyu ep,eopl i remoso 'erew yhobb and.
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Igwrtin semse ti leyst? uyor inef. C?nusfisloeco-s ear you ont yolbbpar twrgiin buato but etysl m,a i. Si rttenein ruo i?nhkt bgingin lnaugylid that hte tfsuf dna 'tdon tfeor, uoy atverice. Orme clinlsgro twhi lkoo dretid rayse ta nuetrrc ?bjo onkw who rfrwdoa yuor uoy ouy emit nyma ot fo utb kill wbseseti atht. .
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To sredabrmaes mi' siht tes tteerl fo aolbllgy kdin ouy eeersla. Erttel htta almei tareedc a slup lmaie, i leppeo eth got eth to sdonce ganisy. Used oyu tshi esewbti tesn omst runbme ae?cdticn a shti esnstcian mitse na stih aer tub of fraet swa v'wee hoets pusopse i fo. Ryueo' bmeya sdiems a ebaym xbtkoic ol?nyle oyu. Eth tacex o-uxofsr-ti nohigp vhae orteh asscec coiesp yuro 'hrese eidcserrtt tetlre fo eboav.

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