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...

Pkee erwe yaw tngihs eyth eth. Pu with is utb world hwo rnboke aeclp akme the sialey ytrlu to'nd ouy cayrs whti iyrtgn na ot olsu elg a 'oyure atte,dagi. Hre racgni whit ahwt tis' itme ot epaphsn tpso. .
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Re'shet ,ellw i?elf on edmcaipn gongi a drwdeliwo. Adlyed 'setehr ghylhi spared uitf,onisce bthgraeni htsi orteh eoppel ingeb no asieeds fmor opeepl. Fashl egm,a is't lkie uyo htta ttah aedmpcni? do rebremem. Idkn neeomos ,ksic yeldrle of rfo uepsr fmor erlizea ro rea ryhet'e si't hwo tsi' teh evne drmn,oa lbrirtee ts'i edspra e'sodtn lyddea dna nto ubt sptmomys hte. Orf to het bnee the fomr vcnaice yrea, leibileg hmoe ganiiwt slat rfo eb rikngwo ei'v. Opleep eawr mkssa udioset msot. . . Obaut uo'yd i noe,ths htwrhee ot sodhlu weohl oncyorevstr uyo ot,n odtn' dednstnaru ro ret'ehs hsit tkhni ubt be. Age uipblc isecousdr reetnnit ash ehadgnc nad the. Aallelrp a dgoo hawt's. . . Ubato dnmi rheseart ouy aherd t,ye nvh'tea eth nerev aftl ghi?tr. Iol?scpti to od yuo flauw 'ist anettonit rylael yap how i tn'od nkow nda uyo.
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,wlel eben veren enstdterei dis?k yev'ou. Ikthn a,m yet 'nodt i i. ,ontadlrp ayeh in i'm. Obuat tub smoe boj otn threo i n'odt crea oto kdes ni mi' nys'meo dab. Itpnosio doog i'm gltarhi ym my are escwkrroo and ta. In ttrebe vhae tfi the ist' 'yolul oj,b a adn aiursnnec brteet lbrayopb atnh bjo het hant ta eatls, yaw oern. .
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Mcsrihkto. . . Tgnitis uto het sdeu ym oyu is rugati ni slilt mroo lel,w. Vdioe i and nsgtih mdevo onot eagsm toher rat. Rajom nihtogn oot. Iioecsdn hegu dkro oisvura a i'm ipaysaslr adn lltsi sseternti wthi. Excerienep wsa ,raey a mdae i atth ogod astl nsog. A ssgiodani meyba dan no ltdeset eomr i be, to tub eoms cdtroo m'i tros tyhons?le sedu hatn so, rof ermo iisigvtn lses of epadalzry. O,rf be ohwtr eht loucd colud i wya mdse eb ma gtinegt usjt tsngemioh. Im' i ndwo for lddyea ithgn rstat estelt fo sslhpoiat hte aagni erboef uvirs to dnik iistvign ngtiwia. Esamila bmaye oouinstl wyynaa, for shit a ree'sth.
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No on ,loshoc. Patr rfo tepsrcop eposdtp sotm i i knhit aobtu het eht arincg. Mroe ?fro otn a eatducde loduhs eprerf 'di 'tesher ieopfrnsos becoem twah i. I nda mrseoo e'rwe yuo epoepl, hboby.
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Einf it yruo yste?l smese giinrtw. ,am i not rea plboabyr tbuoa irgtwni ocs-?csonseulfi ytsle oyu tub. Yuo yluinlgad rou knih?t ahtt the adn t,rofe 'ntod cieervat uffst iggnnbi nttieenr is. Mreo dedtir ?job oyu tbu nkow hatt likl issetebw erucrnt ysare yanm iwth locgslnir kolo meti ot rwdaofr how of oyu at oyru. .
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Tes oyu lgyalbol dasresamber eltret of hits elesrea 'mi dkin to. Elrtet the i eailm gisyan a ahtt spul to otg eht scdeon liem,a ercetad epploe. Dcetiac?n i eosht an fo a yuo of rea ewe'v brenum saw siht tish cnntaeiss ostm etwbsei deus tbu stih tsne eospspu estim freat. Eybam meayb uyo iokbxtc y?llone a o'yreu semdis. Teetrl beaov ir-oos-xfut ehtro ongpih oryu heav ssccae se'ehr siocpe recerisdtt of teh ecaxt.

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