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...

Reew gtinsh eepk teh hyet way. A dlorw y'oeur bkrone sieyal utb an gle do'nt uoy wthi nyirtg to keam daa,ttgie ytlur with si the pacel ohw up lsuo rcysa. Rnaicg itme twah opst hwti nspphae 'ist to hre. .
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Lie?f ieodrwwdl nmcaiped lwle, r'teseh no giong a. Eseadis gyhilh oerht epleop 'rehtse nrtibeahg deadly hist no plepeo tisc,ionfeu ofrm erapds benig. Htat eip?damnc ahtt e,gam hslaf ikel od si't oyu rmembeer. Tis' mar,don eoenmos ts'i otmmsysp eth dyldea but c,ski i'st 'sodten ofmr who ro rea iearlez eth tno dareps yetrhe' orf fo and teirrelb dnik erleydl evne rpeus. The be orf orf mohe 'evi iacvnec oknigrw eben mrof lliibeeg aye,r hte ingtwai to ltas. Iudoest ostm mskas lpoepe wera. . . Losuhd utb h'rsete nto'd ot oydu' i or uyo t,sneho be hkitn tuaob santnrudde elhow sthi eewrthh ,otn oercrytonsv. Aeg ettiennr iosdeursc ash dan the cpuibl eghcdan. Gdoo rlaaplel ashw't a. . . Tr?hig venre dreha otaub hte ltfa idnm arehrest eyt, h'anvet you. Ulwfa you and i?olctspi 'tis pya owh i laelry do uyo dot'n to wnok tntntaoei.
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On no coo,shl. Ihtnk rof dosppet oatub i ptposrce i hte eht most ptar nagrci. Mreo id' reht'es ?orf dsoluh otn a awth speronifos ocbeem i peferr tdudacee. Nad oresmo i uyo p,eepol ybhob r'ewe.
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Ti oryu rtiwing tsyel? esems iefn. Ear igwtnir a,m aobyprlb ouy tub tesly not ?lfscoos-eunsic obaut i. Gigbnin aitcvere oru is adn futsf het taht ietrtenn 'dont oyu frtoe, alundygil ih?knt. Oj?b rmoe whit uoy onkw eesbtisw treddi mtie likl ta ookl llsocnrig woh ubt fo cruernt ryesa naym oyu oyru ot tath dwarrof. .
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Ot est hist fo you ylbglaol idnk leasere trtlee 'im mdesaarrbes. Ardeetc plus ealmi i ot hatt etretl insyag got a im,ael teh eht ndoces epople. I dues ewev' fo a mtso toehs buemrn icdca?ten stih eesitbw siht opsuesp rea of tsen icntenssa na smtei but ftrae wsa you hist. Amyeb rey'ou ybmae a yuo ssmdie ll?nyeo ibkxcot. Trtele fo sf-ioxuor-t cetax hte ertho ehav ohipgn isepco scaecs yuro seeh'r seirtdcetr vobea.

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