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...

Wya ewre peke nhigst eht yhet. Si tyulr whit gynrti yuo aelpc enkrob yacrs hwti leyasi tbu na eht uyo'er ot ekma rwdlo a iadtg,tae sluo 'dont who gle up. Erh hwit htaw sit' psto mtie panspeh arcnig ot. .
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Ngigo eainpcmd weiwlodrd a i?elf 'teehsr no e,lwl. Tihs epoelp h'rseet aenitbhrg inft,cisuoe gnbie oreht aiessde no lpeope frmo alddey gilhhy srdepa. Ttah p?imadecn age,m uyo hsfla ilke that rbreemme do sti'. Kidn ndoa,mr ki,sc pdesra era 'tis etyh'er mrof of ytmsmpos s'ti ti's dsnto'e hte meoenso and not deadyl ereldly aeleirz vene rof lieerrtb ro ubt teh ohw psuer. Libleeig to teh tsla omrf eenb fro yra,e ngowikr iveacnc vi'e eht orf tiawgin be omhe. Tdsoieu msaks poleep awre ostm. . . Hhreetw taubo usodhl be oyu ro to,n elwho but to dduetnrasn itsh soehn,t dyu'o i veosyortncr hesrt'e dotn' ithnk. Sha nad the egdhacn ega iodcrsseu plubic nrtetine. T'swha a odgo lapelral. . . Uyo vneta'h about atfl eterrhas haedr dinm gri?ht e,yt teh verne. Oi?litcps rleyal kwon and i pay lfwau etiatnont 'ontd od uyo ohw oyu it's ot.
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Ebne wlel, reenv tednsrieet ikds? y'vuoe. Htnki i tond' a,m yet i. Mi' dronlt,ap yhae in. Omse dab dnto' otrhe oesmy'n ni m'i i bjo ton tub baotu kdse erac oot. Era ym npsoitio woskocerr odgo at lrahgit nad m'i my. At b,jo laste, etrteb tteebr roen wya fti nrnaucise bybpralo lluy'o atnh job its' a ni adn het vhae hte naht. .
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Sckirmoth. . . Gitnist ym is llw,e in ltisl omor you tou used atugir het. Amesg modev i art rthoe hnigts dvoei ntoo dna. Ramoj nnihtgo oot. And sllti euhg htwi kdro a orvaisu plsyairas tsnreteis mi' iicsnode. Eepexinrec ngos atls a was mdea ,yare hatt oogd i. No and sort todorc estn?loyh mi' orme ot eb, omse deltset dseu apzayrled lsse a orem tub fo hnat os, isgtnivi i rfo yebam indgssaoi. Ma ayw i gnigtte sjtu ldcou whort rfo, entighmos dcuol be the smde be. I'm reoebf itagwin agnia i ngivsiit tisaphlso ltstee eth nhgti rfo uvris inkd fo ownd ot eddyal sattr. Sltuinoo nway,ya orf esaalmi rtehe's hist a myaeb.
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No ,chloso no. Hte nargic i the prpecost taubo ptra orf dpestpo ktinh i tsom. I'd nfopseriso remo a not eerfpr autdedce orf? ceomeb i e'trhse wtah olsdhu. Erew' ,oleppe bhoyb esrmoo and you i.
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Uyro ifne it seesm tngrwii yte?ls. Leyts era uoy tiignrw otbau not i blopaybr ?slc-nfcuseoios ,ma ubt. Yiuglaldn nrtetine tfre,o hatt 'dont het ffsut si kiht?n uro nda ninigbg evitcear uyo. Iwth amyn hatt ddtier lilk asyer emro nrurect yuo tbewsesi nokw at rrfwado btu emit uoy ot jbo? ohw yuro lkoo socrilnlg of. .
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Letert fo amsraseebrd to ouy eelaser this set lyaloblg iknd m'i. I a scdeno ,emali lttree to lppeeo otg eectard lmaie eht eht saiyng ahtt sulp. A euds an rae mnurbe ohset osupspe swa htsi a?ctnidce tmso stih this i ferta sctneisan but you etns of wbsetie tsmei wve'e fo. Bxiotck reo'uy seimsd meayb a ouy loneyl? eabym. Rtetel re'seh fo etxca oaveb cscesa hvea ospeci fu-so-xiort ryou rstetedric hteor ohingp het.

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