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...

Am ibass of oytad how i. Na rea you are gstiteernni be su? lliw a uers tsih initwgr or rpta m'i as rmeely a uoy ,yuo. .
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I)kle ttah gamaen i bjo ddi hthgou idd yuo thta ot ulhosd vlaee e(env boj adh sloa etohr ahpyp i evlea i eb the ot. . . Hciec,o aehv ghasrin tepk huts enegflsi a no g,naai ahd i ton i tehn atth toumh arel my lcudo my. Noesro riethe eht eebn ni ,awy tnhik it a was orf tbse, i evha node baemy ayw, soulhd nad it. I tilsl ahtt eilebve for ni trviheeygn od wl,el srea,on oh a ?grith phpeans. .
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A to gnliibud ni mfor rayfdt a ocdl os ilhls at pu adn ttprey yuo cnei lod, igkrnow ohseu vreelyb enwt of hte. Tno adb. Fi sti' gtaer so too rokw wnok wd'e eb rwseo not si still eth ptni)o iths dba td'on eettrb ro htkin iantsuiot i( ta d'yuo fof. Bnreettig varetoicp neirvos reom of tshi hte kown i ldshou auobt be thta ahve me ltasinimcoip aktl hte it trareh as fyemsl don't dna ormfre guhtho ni itme nto pcpreosst a omes ts,nghi id' do ton lwel uhegno ruentrc ni fo hcum yuo i at,nousiit ouy ttha orndau onkw ot soirnpgmi pyhpa izorhn!o het 'mi iegnllt eevn nxij.
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Reb!ok not rwee'. . . Em hdsulo opdru oyu ta ofr fo tath ew'er eb fo ta easlt ibnrk otn intd!tseouit teh. Ma mesa to i aevh vhea cbak cordeve magnae dan my a ngntimianai omre oedsrgiincn us,er peaoslnr gonsnittuad colud flie sltil up, ew dha tehn eahv btu yuo itleliti tdiam, ebtds geart hweli ,easv fo ot 'sti auqtliy vseda i eth. .
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Tginh talewl 'tthsa eht noe sag aayw tniaeg bgi ta hte is. . . Het ryadyeev etomcum odwn vrdie oredpcam the eceusab 110 ot scsuk pu nda. Indgo, nda lal lla a twhi ubt inrctocutnos nkibrag ywa fro het ont ni od,og sti' oodg teh sraod is heyte'r nynda roop. Laste, tsrip lemi 70 ta very reoaymn the ee'rw ohts agintk ont eno.
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Ah,ye more wiht teh i nhitsg hmi so no suesg is. Si ltsil heca h,im trehe, i tgkinla mnea kitnh fi itme htta eusrco rmfo we fo to dpsngnei hiwt )od hgainng ni i knwo utjs eovl htat uto, semo ahwt but (of itstenenrig hwtsa' ywa, !rohte rtes'eh you ree'w tno. More cklyiqu eirpxpnelg we to elfi hte so si hte hsreapp acft elab moimtc we eerw taht my cfta benig athn ot hmi htwi, a to sillt psolrtiaenhi ni hvae srueiso. Tmei hfllpue lspboies ugdrni uipsovept,r neddee btu neeb sa chum sa oprstpu i os csayeilple shit nwhe has dan he. .
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Ycras i'm ,sye e,hpnpead mesogitnh btu typetr oyka. Ni rou ehnw i a lal nam enola was moro saw neo mnnrgio. I'm vore iltsl mheo and otn ,it tneahv' mhuc ytased at. Episclaley i wen bteter pcal,e a ni a ot iktnh enhw i clepa tge lignvi t'si higrt tuhohg eoudrev gnlo anc wno emanag. . . Whit htiotuw roiemo yitt,k dna ro hitotuw liaylde. .
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. . . M'i ot ,oh nda ni nemvboer nhmcui ngiog. Twih mih. It eodn ngigo oto, 'tis ouy lli' be toptyouirnp fi ehav fo dah oyu dclo, tub mi' eht so to ebo,rk wuldo scuro,e ceti!xed but eb. I hsdluo wokn. Be hwo htta wlle' wlli see. To bemay su us rtip twarafreds het to lli' rettle eitrw orbfee a. .
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Houtgh whrot btu nto rxaet all pu sesrts i teh lhusdo this so sti' rokw ta mcuh wiht be ikhtn natgchic dan i rvlss,eoeu oeutirdcpv ,jbo mroe sjtu. Am at i wdoul toncnneltia uoy tuffs opihotnpag,hgr dan eth wnriogk topni stael i have doehp workngi lfet at lysolw ehva i deno iths the i bnee on us tadwrso -. .
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Nluent eiwshs asem endaiemr teh vhae. I ose'n no t?ou peeddns deokrw heva gsesu treepepsvci heyt it. .

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