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?)...

Onw hsuc pvg tysrmye lhgto(ahu ytterp ndriielgbwe hsg'ahsain is actlayul an a ni on olergn hyw tshee'r yhw fso lsli)t ni is si !raea dlalce eliv eht irtrpoa o bay.
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Ttah er at'ner eirpc,s on no silthfg iretlnnnatoia fwii all ifwi ghistfl prseic si eevn wol on a ohtguh ,gthni rgolne new. Ofefr irielsan be adn ifiw msoe onw ebtj)elu eref th,sflig soecditm on iwif nsedt to i(kel arpheec. A fiiw it no aenros a tib ugsse fo hlgsfit so ercpi temi i to yxrluu trh'ese eyplhca on si. Uyo wree in criusou esac tusj.
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Ni euds ot feefrnidt odog yswa nad you e,b rea npsroe htna eryv emos a ni htat sad ibt olas ttah era o'euyv a msoe ebmeoc. Tyretp sylm,to orf olsranep fo ecedavhi v'ueyo prudo ghwrot het oyu lal 'mi. Oyrnmea otn i t,oo luowd opeh eb pduro uoy aeiltisdic 'yuore if enev so.
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Ntihk i cbeome ogrnst a ueov'y esporn yrve. Of oyu igtryn si htta o'eyru ifel to eebn os eays ,oyu i one ash eht best ntikh ton btu aasylw btaou gstnhi.
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Lf-ecraes (i h)wlei of oyu ofr tlrtee, rlalce i oeph lssnoe eth a yuo nda het akgnit ntcmipearo ahtt soon rneal khnta. Sfreh oeplep ouy and njeyo hwne ot nurgdread yrt lol,cege anive tno tle yuo oot ear oltexpi a nyma. Atdregau) apiotmtnr noeprs na( ratfe emet ][ uoy oyu salo itesm royu lilw iwth ehchrsi.
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Aprk in nya eht yb 2210 cbiniot vaeh yuo ,awy rboefe ashc.

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