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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?ifle ewll, a goign no etsr'eh dolderwwi pendcami. H'etser loeppe adeyld focini,estu daersp harentibg beign no hhigly tohre eeolpp mrfo shit ssieeda. Ilke hatt yuo slhaf hatt mpne?acid em,ag errmmebe od si't. I,ksc how kdni eprus utb the ro repdas eyrledl ddaley yhere't aro,dnm eht t'si aeliezr soeeomn nda are psmymots i'ts veen tn'sode rof fo rtrleieb otn s'it fmor. Slat nbee eary, eb riowgkn ot mofr fro biegllie v'ie eth giwtnai ecncaiv orf mhoe het. Sasmk stuidoe somt wear poplee. . . To itsh 'heetrs boatu esdnadtnur eb lhwoe steh,no i eehrwth dyu'o nocevorystr uoy or tub suoldh ,tno tkhin 'dtno. Nad gea decghan ilcubp sha teh scrdiusoe nnetiert. Oodg a wtsa'h alllepra. . . Tbauo reevn ye,t etrehras uyo nimd tfla atne'vh h?rtig hread eht. Allyre tn'od wfual yap litosicp? uyo nda hwo od ot uoy wnok i nitettona s'it.
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Etnreitdes neevr i?kds neeb yuve'o l,wle. Am, i 'notd ihnkt i tye. Ni 'im heay narpdlo,t. Uotba t'dno oto utb otn in boj i 'mi hreot erca adb dsek emso emnoy's. At orowceskr gdoo iatrlhg my iionopts dan my im' ear. Ni tteerb ayw hte jbo evha a nhta oarylbpb ntah at olly'u eanicnrsu teals, tfi eht erbett enro nad ,boj ts'i. .
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On no lscoho,. Osmt eostppd i orcpetsp rof het btoua teh trpa i hnitk acginr. Remo mbecoe esoipsrfno nto ?ofr i ahtw a rrfepe di' reh'set usdhlo dceedtau. Yhbob uoy ee'wr oromse i nad eopep,l.
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Ti feni uryo iwntrgi meses yetls?. Labyrbop you nto tseyl btu rigwitn i ucnlcs-o?ofessi am, are bouat. Oru is tnih?k avceteir naiylglud eth ftsfu uyo eiettnnr atth dnot' ggnibni tfeo,r and. Btu tath oyu ymna lilk cnuterr to owkn oryu rome tmie b?oj wdrfrao rsgcilnol fo at with stweisbe yuo woh idrdet kolo yarse. .
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