Hello! From the Past

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hi. Since I'm not so good with time and am more of an instant gratification person, you are getting this email from one year in the past. I suppose it's a good thing, since I've (we've? I'm not sure how to address the recipient of this email since I am writing to myself, but to a leaner, colder, meaner wiser self...I'll figure something out) had this running theory about my summers for some time now with an emphasis of post-school summers. Theory suggests that you, FutureMe, will be having a pretty good to amazing summer, while I, PresentMe, am having a pretty crappy one. ...but I suppose I'm just generalizing. Yes, I should be thankful I work in an (over) air conditioned place and that I have a job at all with benefits, but work is just the pits and prevents me from really having a true summer. It really makes me seriously consider the thought of becoming a teacher, but that moment passes pretty quickly. But seriously, work is going LOADS better than I ever anticipated (I would like to think, with the help of all the hard work I've put in), I have a wonderful man who loves me for who I am and I love him back just as much, and I've been more or less able to save myself some money despite my expenditures and payments for my car and living expenses. I also do like working the 8-5 shift, which I haven't done for a long period of time in a very long time...it's just that work is so draining and I can't even do much afterwards since I'm so sapped from energy it's kind of sad. I go through these days of utterly hating my job to thinking my job isn't so bad, but I do know deep down that I'm really not growing career-wise and personally by keeping these jobs, no matter how much I love what we do. So what am I to say to you? I guess I hope this finds you healthy, a little better than broke and a little wiser. Will you still be working here where I am now, or have you moved to bigger and better things? Are you still living in LA or will you be elsewhere? How are things with the Penguin? I do love him a lot, and he loves you tons as well, and even though I would think I'd be freaked out from all this commitment, I'm really happy and I think he suits us well, so I hope that's still on the up. If there's anything more I hope for you, I hope you have left the country at one point by the time you read this and you're photographing again. I would otherwise say "See you later," but I'm already a thing of the past. What have you been wishing for when you drive through tunnels? <3

Epilogue

about 16 hours later

Dear PastMe,

My, my. How things have changed. Or not!

Now how do I refer to PastMe? You are, after all, a thing of the past, but you are the...

Owh ma fo i ibass aoytd. Era eyelmr as ro a a na su? steriniengt igwrtin you you llwi aer yo,u shti be mi' rpta esur. .
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Gas ltlwae eth yawa one ta eht igb atgein 'hstta hgnti is. . . Vredi ndwo dna teh up to cussk ecraompd mtcuoem absueec yaedvrey eth 110. Ubt ,godo ayw ntscrcooitnu rof nyadn lla dna all ni not opor odn,ig is si't tyeh're dgoo wiht agibkrn eht het rodsa a. Noe teh at otsh siprt er'ew esta,l oyarenm ont vyre itnagk imle 70.
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. . . Gigon mrebnove to im' uchnmi o,h in adn. Hiwt ihm. 'lli trnouoippyt xetdeci! suc,ero os fi ti s'it i'm teh ahev eb fo adh ongig ebo,kr to oto, uoy utb doen uoy lwodu be ubt ,odlc. I suhdlo konw. Elw'l eb lwil ohw ees atht. Irwet frdersaawt embay ot ot us us eth trleet eobref ill' rtip a. .
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I xtear eosvurl,se htuhog i eb ist' eht at ,jbo ihacgtcn tbu krwo wiht cotieurvdp tish not so hlodus sjut nda reom up hucm htrwo knhti lla srests. ,hoihngtpgorap sdaotrw kiwgnor no niorkwg oyu oulwd have i het i i tsela - hepdo at aehv ltef dna yslowl tniop eht neeb siht am fstuf dnoe ta i eiltonactnn su. .
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Saem nlunte eth have ieshsw areedinm. Ehva no seenddp ugess perpvceites i ti s'noe kowred ?otu eyth. .

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