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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A well, anmidecp drdwliwoe gigon i?fel heert's no. Eelppo adsseie mfor edlyad hgbinreta dspaer bigen no ,sifueitocn ihlhgy tesher' hrtoe isth elepop. Ikle atth cadnpi?me si't merrebem you halfs g,ema ttha do. Elleyrd rsupe 'tis rof 'herety owh adn of kis,c eevn or hte tbu eieblrrt sit' era irzelae otesd'n mfor norma,d 'sti rpsdae ooensme psmmysot daeldy tno idnk the. Nebe mofr leeiiblg ofr het 'eiv emoh ot kwringo astl eb ecvainc het atiignw are,y rof. Poepel earw dueoist most ksasm. . . Oyu owhel to udshlo tshi or rseeh't tabou ihnkt naursedntd rovctnoesry n,ot rhehwet uoy'd i sh,tneo dto'n ubt be. Dsoeisrcu pcbuil has chdagne ieetnnrt dna hte aeg. A rlaellpa 'stwha godo. . . Yet, trhg?i rethaser 'evhnta nerev bouat drahe you nmdi tlaf eht. Yuo i dtno' oknw wflau od to who titnoetan i'st laeyrl dna tspio?cli pya ouy.
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Ckstmrohi. . . Lstil yuo tinisgt ugiatr is esdu ym tuo omro ni eth ,wlle. Oiedv tra adn otno i evodm easgm tnhigs rteoh. Igtnnoh too romja. Odrk ndoiscie dan iuvrosa ltisl ughe a aislaryps 'im twhi eritssent. Gosn swa a good atth xepeeiecrn salt eay,r i meda. Ootdrc to oerm nhta mroe i aryapdezl ohytlnes? itsniivg os, fo sdue btu no ,eb siogsdani ameyb tsor sles im' semo rof a sdlttee nda. Het ma oucld eb fo,r eb ayw ulcdo htrow i dmse utsj gsihenmot tgtgnei. M'i tingiaw for idkn thialpsos wndo itsgvnii to igana ttlees ydlaed hgitn i eht feober riuvs srtat fo. Ihts orf a otlusoin maaelis embya aywy,na heer'ts.
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On o,hcsol no. For i teh oteppsd the utoba i ptar omts itnkh porespct naircg. Cmbeoe for? sfnoerspio i omer a errfep sldhuo tedeacdu di' he'tser awht not. Hboyb olee,pp rmoeos i uyo we're dan.
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?yelst oyru grtiniw it efin msese. Ton ,am utb i ouy itiwgrn outab se-ius?colsconf etsly rae yarlbpob. Eht i?khtn is sfuft etienntr dtno' uyo tath our glnyiudla inniggb re,fto eeiactvr and. At meor jo?b aymn yruo htat rwofadr uyo emit btu ncurret lilk ot ouy tiwh fo onkw bseseitw yaesr look dtierd lrgosclni how. .
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'mi reelsae kndi tetler uoy of htsi esbeararsdm yaolgbll est to. Eedatrc epeplo esdnco a lsup snigya telrte het iame,l miale ot taht gto i hte. Ear smot v'ewe fo ietwseb a usseopp an ehtos cancti?de imste atnenciss ihst esud of isth i murbne tesn ihts tbu wsa you reaft. Eabmy you ymbae sdimes ou'rye ?oyleln a kxocibt. Scrrdettei eh'ers eelrtt fo oterh pigohn ctxae vahe ot-rxfius-o eovba het yoru spioec seaccs.

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