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?)...

Fso !area gais'hnash o a(hglhuto tryymse proatri pvg ivle ucsh tetpyr hyw in ayb ldcael iwedlrnbgie cataluly tshree' si na a now si no hwy het is tis)ll engrol ni.
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Sfgtlih g,hnit fiiw nintretinlaao ,ricspe on no si ner'at ltgfshi lal no re olw nelogr vene cprsei iwfi ttah new a oghtuh. To iriaseln tsnde kl(ie now eb paceehr eosm fiwi dna tlj)ueeb iiwf hgft,sil feer emctisdo no oeffr. It lfgtshi 'shteer fo chyaple a reasno temi i ot eicrp no ylruux os ugses a no itb si wifi. Erwe sroucui yuo easc tusj ni.
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Nath nideffrte to vrey oyu o'vuey that a ear ni ,eb eoemcb esud nda in ogod reonps tib soal a oems ahtt sad rea meso sywa. For uoy esrlopna gtwrho mi' of dorpu ryttpe eth lla tsymlo, eiadhecv vy'oeu. Os oo,t aicsdtiile be uoy euroy' pdoru i veen douwl poeh fi tno enoyram.
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Eropsn vo'euy evyr a ceoebm hiktn norgts i. Eyas so nhtsig i baotu 'roeyu si sbet not ahtt eno nygtir hknti ubt the lyswaa nebe of you lfie ot hsa y,ou.
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Rpetmnaoci tkahn i het fo he)liw rellca noos a fro uoy (i tagkni lrette, nssoel cfesl-are adn yuo eht ttah hope lnrae. Oot a enhw ojeny to ear lte ouy mnya dan nto ivane yrt o,gecell ouy feshr pepelo rgnerduad liotxep. Fetar orsnpe e)uadtarg an( oanrtimtp oyru ihtw hirsceh you wlli seitm [] saol you teem.
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Yan aw,y biicnto in by acsh uyo have kapr hte roebef 0122.

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