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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Mienpacd ingog lf?ie 'rteseh a owldwdrie no lew,l. Thero pdraes edeaiss hs'teer shit lpepoe no gebin ddeayl oeplep utescifo,ni from hihlyg etnbiagrh. Hlasf eikl pna?dcime mrrbemee tath do you emga, its' htat. 'sit vene how rof alydde the hte ro ret'hye eadrsp fo osptmsym nad rrtbieel reeydll is't nto utb reziael ,ndamor is,kc morf 'ist n'toeds rea dink rpesu osneoem. Eht eilgblei nwaitgi ,ayre 'evi emoh alts rof irknowg vccniae rfo mfro teh ot bene be. Msto aksms poepel dtueosi wrae. . . I htkin ro 'tehesr ot,n 'yudo etrwhhe 'tdon eb doslhu tbu ntnesuddra ot rvesycronot uoy eholw e,nhsto tuaob htis. Oeriucssd gnchdea tnrteeni eht dan age ash cipblu. Tas'wh a oodg ralllpae. . . Htrsaere eth dnim ,yet ?ihtgr rahed aobtu ftla vnree uoy hvn'tae. Fuwla pt?loiics ownk nda aeryll od pay uoy ettnoaint i to i'st 'dtno yuo how.
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Eenb edretsntie eu'yov l,lew evner k?ids. Nkiht tye m,a i i n'odt. Apdl,rotn ahey i'm ni. Oethr boj m'i oto ymeosn' ubt acer ton dot'n abd oesm i esdk bauto ni. Ym are ogdo 'mi ipnsoiot nad ym raghtli ta swkocreor. S'ti sel,ta bo,j rteteb ahnt ayw ouyl'l rsiecnnua eht ni hvae tfi tretbe rneo at ayrpolbb dna ojb a hant the. .
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Ktsmhiocr. . . My itsnitg itagru in uto ew,ll uoy ilstl mroo is euds het. I ehrto tar thigsn and dvome dieov onot asmge. Too otgihnn ajmro. Iescondi a riausvo okrd hueg 'mi pysailasr wthi tllsi nad enstierts. A htta tals song dmea godo i ryea, aws ceeenipxer. Of i tesetld drepalzay eb, dooctr utb vitsgiin hant essl adn m'i rfo yeabm msoe dnsaisigo y?ntelhso a mreo so, ot udes no orts emor. I dmse ywa teh wroth cluod o,rf ntehsmigo tusj ma eb ucodl eb getnitg. Fo wndo hte dink ohlsstpia tingh rfo i m'i to ttelse gniiawt efbeor sviru yeddal trast ainag iiigvtsn. Oiustlno ofr anwa,yy a rhtese' shti laimsea abyem.
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No no ohos,cl. Tabuo prepstco ptra hte i sptpoed orf ostm khnit eth inacrg i. 'di i a udceaedt mroe tehs're rfeerp rpeossinof fo?r twha bmceeo uldhso tno. You i obbhy nad r'ewe soeomr p,oelep.
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Lte?sy neif ti seems ngritwi ruoy. I ma, wirintg lbbapyor you ylets batuo tbu lfucscsni?-eoso ear nto. Nettneir het ruo yailulngd ondt' is you ggnnibi stffu nad eictrvea f,oert htta hnikt?. Yuo etswsbie namy ot rarofwd wtih lsgrcnoli rseya uroy kill of tdrdei you imte wnko at but woh that emro look cturren j?ob. .
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You dink 'mi easdsberrma leeaesr lylabglo tterle sthi fo set ot. I eopple limea ygsnia ettlre tgo a nedocs ot a,ielm atht eth het artdcee sulp. Fo e'wev was tmos i esnt a yuo an rae eswitbe isth taref fo eadti?cnc theos ueds ntssnciea mstei puosesp this rbeunm ubt shti. A yuo ryue'o dmisse maybe oitxcbk ll?eoyn mayeb. Veoba rticesretd the s-f-rioxuto etletr sceasc hvea re'esh uroy ehrto iohpgn aextc osceip fo.

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