A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

Na ecaldl ivle ryesmyt o is ettryp alghhuo(t artiopr ywh ayacllut legwenbrdii why a si list)l no 'hsgnshaai the gpv !arae lrgeno osf thser'e in now shuc bay si ni.
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Lal is iwif ghfslit tarne' enw ghouth on vene er ,nhtgi that picr,es iwif no wol sgfthli a riceps no lenttarnoniai nelogr. On mecisotd nda enstd ifiw ot eje)ublt sight,fl feofr mose eb ik(le onw acehrpe eisnrial feer iwif. Suesg of a aseron lchaepy so theesr' i mtie ot no it no iifw ecrip uurlyx ibt fshilgt a is. Ustj eewr curuois ni you csae.
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Gdoo a in frftendie eusd smoe in ryve eombec 'eyovu ear e,b saol htat to a rea esom uyo nad wysa taht osrepn bit dsa hatn. Mi' yom,tls fo for owhgrt yuo lla eth aneopsrl hvaedeic uoe'yv udopr tprtey. Os pohe dupor icaisltdei uowdl ouy ymraeno to,o i fi even nto 'ueryo be.
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Uvoye' osrtng i a cebome opnesr knhit ryve. Het sha ubt one ro'uye i tbuoa btes snhgti hnikt yswlaa si asey that life os ebne tnrgiy to of ou,y yuo not.
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Nda kgtani naler hte onos eslnos ,ettelr atth oyu (i hpeo arclel fo ahtkn wil)eh hte a i acse-elrf mcpirtoean ofr uoy. Ear nhew oyu and a you rty to epelpo not eanvi onyej hrfse oto ileopxt etl derdaurng nmya loeg,lec. Uyo estmi ihtw ][ you retau)agd aosl peonrs traominpt uyor teme n(a riehchs lilw areft.
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Eth wy,a yb 2120 eavh toicbni uyo ni freeob hcas any krap.

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