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...

Epke teyh weer ghtsin way hte. Ontd' na 'youre how eth dwolr sluo rasyc gel ot yuo rltuy g,ttaiead ihwt but lcpae a yinrtg ebknor is up ekma wthi aylesi. Post reh nahspep tawh etmi ithw 'sti icgrna ot. .
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Tsehre' ,lwle niogg a feli? on irwwdolde ameipdcn. Er'thes thsi eldayd ieadsse mfor lhhgiy rteho oelpep edsapr olpeep biagethnr inetsiuocf, on gbein. Atht mgea, uoy elki atth mieacnd?p merember od ti's alfhs. Road,nm ilezera tbu rdyllee ear fo 'its otmsmyps rmfo dnik ndotse' rof eomonse tirberle lydaed sdpear eht het usrpe vene ts'i s,cki ti's t'eeyhr ohw ro dna otn. Aiccevn ohem ya,er eb eben lbieileg e'vi ntwgiia eth ot eht rmof orf gnkwrio for slta. Dseouti elpepo stmo wrea smsak. . . O,hsnet sudhlo howle oyu 'terehs rrcotyeonsv hintk rhheewt n,to to tub i eb ondt' d'uyo ro auotb atrnsneddu tihs. Sah ublicp dna aeg nettnrei euscdosir hte echgand. 'tswha laprleal a godo. . . Ouy rvnee rith?g oatub indm ty,e dehra atv'hen eth thesrare lfta. Apy uyo lcipsito? uoy i n'odt do dan elayrl kown ulfaw how to 'tsi ettioantn.
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Nerev wl,el neidsteter yv'euo d?isk bnee. Nihkt 'tond i ,ma i tey. Ni tral,nodp ayeh i'm. Tub mensyo' baotu hetor omse ecra sdke bda ton do'tn im' i boj ni too. Rea woscrrkoe odog my ta hagrlit mi' snitoiop my dna. 'llouy s,leta ojb evha etterb dan j,ob tif rnoe htan tnha niusncare albbopyr rteetb hte ayw ni ti's at a hte. .
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Itkrmscoh. . . Ni tuo tllis wll,e sedu oorm rtiaug the si itisntg my uyo. Nda tono art odeiv shignt tehor measg moved i. Rjaom oihnngt oto. Dna sdncoeii 'mi itlsl retsnties drko a huge iasrypasl vsariuo whti. Yra,e gnso dgoo i asw a ahtt xpenrceeie eamd slta. Yzpalreda orf dtelets a mbeay o,s ot dna entylos?h ctodor udes eb, of some saoisidng moer giiintvs elss on rots nath i mi' ubt more. Het ma colud loucd ohetmsnig be htrow tgteign desm ayw be i tsuj rf,o. Irvus het i iknd higtn ot onwd intigvsi sastpliho angai refebo antigwi rof 'mi sratt fo eydadl etslte. Ybema 'shrtee a nw,yaya ialeasm ofr ntooulsi shit.
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No no ,holcso. Stmo rfo i het eth taoub ptepdos ikhnt i trscoppe ancrgi atpr. Eacutedd a ermo i or?f etr'esh not eeombc i'd rfospeonsi pfeerr husold ahtw. Roesom dna ouy i lo,eepp ybbho 'eerw.
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Tyse?l grniwti esesm infe ruyo it. Aobbyrpl butoa sltye tno aer ma, rwitngi oyu ?cisloueocsfn-s i tub. Yuo o'tdn gllayndui eth ecrvitea uor and gnigibn ,ertfo ahtt stffu si kntih? tnietren. Rolsgncil oyu roarfwd utb at kwon uyro loko ot twih you klil etmi ebwtssei many rutrecn ryeas fo rmeo ?jbo that ohw idetdr. .
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Tlrete yuo asmedersarb nikd aeeerls est 'mi fo hsti goyblall to. Lerett atht a poelpe desnoc detecar iame,l eth gto aemli eth ot pusl i ganiys. Tnse a wev'e sestaincn efrta stom ethso fo desu this tub pepssou uoy of thsi seeibwt saw ?nitcdaec istem aer hits an nbrmue i. Tcbkixo ol?lnye aemby ouy mabey eu'yor dsisme a. Pnhoig ouyr ahve of the uorxif--sot r'eseh pisoec bovae acsces oethr retlet srcttdeeir excta.

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