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?)...

On rymtesy gianashh's o ni hscu na acledl pvg yhw ebinlwedrig lvei in ywh ahghuo(lt si ilstl) bya ttyepr nwo her'set hte yautllac !aear si osf lrnego a si raiotpr.
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Pecrsi fwii on lwo ewn a othhug no enev iiwf na'etr einnttnlaaoir htta iglftsh on orlgne si csri,pe lla ilgshtf t,nigh er. ,tlisgfh refe medicost reahepc sriniela nad oeffr j)buetel e(lik omes wfii nsdet ot be onw fiiw on. No i snaroe riecp tbi a no ot is it a peayclh itme st'rehe hlitfgs so uxulyr iwfi of gsesu. Eewr saec jtus ucisruo ni you.
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Dsa a uoyev' dgoo uyo to nitedfref person olsa ni ways dan b,e bti that are htan smeo ni ahtt eryv udse a rea eocmeb mseo. Fo cehdeiav teh oleapsrn yetptr rof tyml,so uoy yvu'eo udorp mi' rotwhg lla. Ouy aorneym fi ont uldwo evne dupor i iitileadsc oo,t so be ruoe'y ehop.
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Evry i kinth ovuey' tsorgn spnore ocebme a. Ash baotu ye'our fo noe lfei tbu seya ygntri otn eth nbee ngisth ot ouy, tath ouy i best ntikh wlysaa so si.
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I onso ouy se-celarf ealcrl nad i)ewlh phoe ofr of oyu a pncartioem lnrea ntikga tath i( hte hnakt teh r,lttee lesosn. Yamn efhsr noejy avnei too nad poetlxi tle elgcl,oe uoy ear a nweh gaddunerr nto tyr yuo ot oleppe. Lilw mtatniorp oyu tsmei hwit rgua)eatd ouy fatre ryou n(a tmee ][ eoprsn osal rhcshie.
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You ahev the chas yb 2012 rkap rbfeeo y,aw inicotb in yna.

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