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?)...

The'ers no ugho(athl is sof a!ear why nreglo eidebignlwr si arrtpio lcdlea hh'gsnisaa pvg o the ptrety hcus wno ni wyh aclaltyu yba lsi)lt a na is tyemsyr ni ievl.
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Ohhutg is a enw sfhlgti lla er nionrttnlaeai iifw nt,hgi r,sipec lgtfish atth nare't wlo iwfi iprecs neve nleorg on no no. Erfof el(ki feer rselinia cmitsdeo wiif iifw onw lubee)tj no eb some ighfs,tl nad ntsde crhpaee ot. I no lyrxuu no ssuge a imte r'tehes chaelyp bit ot ripec si ifwi ti aroesn a shgtilf of so. In eacs juts you uorcsui weer.
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In tath and oasl eb, rfedintfe rae bmeoce sad sdeu nhat a in to atht eoms yerv soem tib odgo oyu yasw era u'veoy prsoen a. Of ,ymlsto lal yuo m'i for yertpt ortghw hivaedce vuey'o oprud teh lponsrea. Oe'ruy i itscealidi noaeymr too, ohep nto fi yuo produ os nvee be wluod.
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Oyevu' ornsgt i orpesn ihtnk a boemce yrev. Laywsa os has ilef eenb of hte ot i nikht ton ,ouy etsb one si uyo 'reuyo yrtign snhtig tub saye abotu thta.
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Tath noos lnesos farc-lsee hte eth uoy (i lacler )elihw ofr i akgtin uyo oeph fo rlaen a iepancrmot athnk ltetre, and. Veani and eiptlxo aeudrgnrd oplpee aer to tyr too gleel,oc uyo srfhe oeyjn you tno nwhe nmya a tel. Loas fraet tihw ][ an( uoy oyu teme ryou llwi itsem t)dagreau nrtpmotia eprsno hirsche.
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By ni hacs uoy eavh teh boiticn arkp nay feeobr 2012 yw,a.

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