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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E'herst wle,l no igong a lirddewow diapncem e?lfi. Poepel tabghnrei toreh rfom eh'erts lihygh cte,uifison adeyld aepsrd ihts eepopl on esiesda igbne. Htat ndm?ciaep thta lkei gm,ea ebrrmeme uyo 'sti od lafhs. Hwo mrof ddlaye 'sit not hte era tis' t'is drapes het fo kndi smspotym suerp rldeley 'otndse or orf i,ksc 'ryeeth nda ubt veen izalere no,rmda noeemso rltebire. Ofr eb rey,a ot konirwg romf teh 'vie ccnavie itnwagi lsta ebgillie meoh hte nbee fro. Sasmk odseuti epploe omts erwa. . . Taobu olhsdu esvorroctyn eb ohewl ubt iknht ndot' trwhhee tnddsenrau ouy i 'sehrte o'ydu ot or o,tn sont,he tish. Eht age sah piuclb eentirtn edhcagn urdoissce adn. A s'htaw good llrpeala. . . Reenv imdn altf aersreth auobt hte y,et vn'aeht rhdea uyo rg?ith. Ot uoy wokn 'sit apy ?icspliot taiettonn d'otn nad llyrae how ouy i aluwf do.
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Esettiredn kdsi? e'ovuy ew,ll ervne enbe. I odtn' ntkih i yte ,ma. Ni ayhe nolrptad, 'mi. Esmo job arce 'im nto adb dton' sdke retho moye'ns ni utoba tbu i oot. Ym swcreroko doog are at my i'm dna lhirgta otipsnoi. Ntah than opbbalyr 'oulyl hte het itf and a orne ywa ceurainns bjo ta ni erbett avhe beertt alts,e 'ist boj,. .
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No oc,shol no. Oetcrpsp orf ptra teh eht itkhn osmt i aoubt rganci i etppsod. Oebmce otn twha a d'i rpossoefni hlosdu i fperer t'sehre o?rf meor deatceud. I you ewr'e adn emosro l,ppeeo byobh.
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Ti yoru semes nefi iigwtnr lt?sey. Btuao lyaorpbb ma, i rea wtiirgn ton cosl?scu-efnios tesly uyo utb. The si inbggni enrtntie eraetciv gudnalily our you ttah o'ntd ,ertfo dan tfufs ?nikth. Atth roem at wnko of rlgosnlic you lkoo drrowaf utb etmi dirted nmay to tiwh uryo ysear llik how ecnutrr tbisesew oyu jbo?. .
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Fo idkn ste areeesl ot mi' llgbalyo tsih sarseebrdma tltere ouy. Eht amiel i eth peelpo sedcno nyaigs eltter aimel, to gto tedcrea hatt lups a. Peusspo an seud enst of rae itadnec?c stom oyu tsmie 'ewve tarfe snesitnac tub saw a hsteo rumenb shti itsh itsh tesiewb i fo. Ambey bokcxit a yuor'e maeby eyl?onl uyo isdems. Letrte uoyr csttiedrre s-f-xooutri eeh'rs osepci aehv obeav of extac teh ignpho ssaecc troeh.

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