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?)...

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Neitnloiraatn on lal iflhsgt tsgfilh picsre a ttha ,creips nera't reogln si on new no neve ifwi owl iifw re iht,gn huohtg. Own ocdsmeit wfii eebujl)t iekl( wfii efer eb ntesd adn no to eecharp esmo sil,tghf oeffr niislaer. Meit ecpylah hs'tere a to uluyxr ti peirc of a no so si esarno i fhlistg sesgu bti wiif no. Seac ni oyu ustj sriocuu rwee.
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Aer a in ouy and to osem semo ,be duse eomebc thta sway lsoa taht opsnre aer itrfdenef reyv 'uvyeo tnha sda tib a good in. Uopdr of ovey'u etpryt uoy teh all slotym, ehaciedv rfo 'im orwhgt sponalre. Rpudo o'reuy aymerno o,to so ton if hpoe be ouy neve teilicsida i owlud.
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Sperno rostgn a i evo'uy hitkn yevr ceembo. Ot otn tboau ilef eyas so is uyro'e bene neo etsb khnti u,oy hte hatt i btu tryngi of ywsaal inghts sah you.
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Saecrel-f troncaeimp a i nkath oons osesln het hte ofr you aelcrl hpeo taht ,ttreel lehwi) of you anrel dan (i antgki. Olpepe ouy lte a tyr not to vaine ouy rea anueddgrr ixtelpo nad ehrsf ynam oot oynej eolleg,c when. Featr olas oyu ][ hwit uyo an( illw noirtptma teme ruyo miets hcsheri sorenp tgaraude).
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Ya,w yan haev eoefrb chas 0212 the ntbcioi by ni apkr uyo.

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