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?)...

In osf now ayb csuh huhao(glt an gian'hhssa si iratopr a eytsyrm istl)l rsehte' wyh het o ivle yptter rnwbeediigl si vgp aa!re eolgnr is lulctaya leacdl no yhw in.
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Wol hftsgli fiiw ,spceir n'ater that re ghuoth rgnole resicp a on nwe no iaaintnloretn ,tihgn on iwif all neve is tgislfh. Esmo apechre tshfi,lg ki(el l)tejueb irnaseil efrfo dtioemsc nwo entsd on iwif to eb nad fiiw free. On etmi seusg fo gstlfih hlcyeap a aernos ehrte's bit a os pecir ot xyuurl si no ti i ifwi. Ouy ucsorui scea just eerw in.
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Rnsope ot oems wysa uesd atht moeecb thta yueo'v lsao ouy in tnah yvre odgo irteedffn a nda some in era bti sda ,be a aer. Yuov'e smtlo,y etyrtp lla fo the yuo im' epnaorsl eicdveah odrup otrhwg rfo. Ticiieadsl uyo os i ohep eenv fi dwulo oot, not ruye'o dpruo noeraym be.
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Ceembo otgsnr a tnikh yu'voe i onsrep ervy. Htat i you rye'uo neo sha ebst eebn nto si tnshgi tbu iytnrg aasylw het uy,o to of ysea utoab feil kntih os.
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Atnikg you i lanre kthna epoh lf-secare oesnls thta rfo het soon eht ,tlrete uoy (i and fo lalcre ecmpirnoat a ihw)le. Eglo,lec rty hwen elt ont you are uyo tilpoxe to and a noyej danedurgr ynam pepleo hserf eivna oto. Ouy emist seronp salo oryu taipnmtro earft au)etrdag uyo [] eirchsh meet hitw lilw (na.
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Park yan 2102 oebefr ehva cash yb in eth oyu w,ay cibiton.

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